Today’s Mass Readings Friday 32nd Week of the Year Luke 17:26-37 The beautiful thing about our relationship with the Lord is that when we prepare ourselves for him to come, he comes today! Before hurricane Irma hit Florida, I checked my phone to see when the last major hurricane hit the Tampa Bay area. It […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Thursday 32nd Week of the Year Luke 17:20-25. The kingdom of God is within us and so is his love in its many forms. The question the Pharisees asked Jesus seems reasonable, “When will the Kingdom come?” Of course they were thinking of some political kingdom when Israel would rise again and be […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Wednesday 32nd Week of the Year Luke 17:11-19 The story of the 10 lepers – When we have nothing to give him but our ills and our sorrows, He heals us as we go on our way. Once again Jesus catches us off guard. Usually, he heals someone on the spot. But […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Tuesday 32nd Week of the Year Luke 17:7-10 Did you know that the Greek translation for the term “unprofitable” in this context means literally that the disciples are “without need.” I can see the servant in the gospel wiping his brow walking up the steps into his master’s house. All he wants […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Monday 32nd Week of the Year Luke 17:1-6 If you have a mulberry tree in your soul, ask Jesus to cast it into the sea. Has there ever been a record of a mulberry tree being uprooted and planted in the sea because a Christian said so? Never – even Jesus never […]
Read more32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Generosity, redefined Many are shocked at the idea of biblical tithing. Give 10 percent—10 percent!—of our resources to the Lord? Who would do this? Yet some Christians do it as a matter of course. No statistics indicate that anyone ever died of tithing—or of generosity exercised on any scale. The […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Saturday 31st Week of the Year Luke 16:9-15 Jesus is asking us to be faithful to him in the little things we do every day. Jesus is teaching us that the master of this world can easily govern our thinking, shape our ideas and control our hearts with all their choices. Wealth, […]
Read moreFeast of St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome November 9
FEAST OF THE DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA Living stones How often, when we speak of church, we have to clarify whether we mean the faith community or the building where that community gathers. As we celebrate the Lateran Basilica—the pope’s own cathedral, the mother of all churches—we remember that human beings need things that appeal […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Thursday 31st Week of the Year Luke 15:1-10 It won’t take much for any of us to pause for a moment and think back when we were so lost or in such a rut that He searched us out and brought us back to His heart. Joy! Joy is one of the […]
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Today’s Mass Readings Wednesday 31st Week of the Year Luke 14:25-33. Anything can lose its meaning when we hear it so often. Love your neighbor is one of those sayings. It can easily lose its impact on us. “Love your neighbor” can be one of those sayings. We cannot help but notice how Pope […]
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