Showing posts with label CYCLE-A-2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CYCLE-A-2023. Show all posts

THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING

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The Last Sunday of the Year-A Dear Friends, This famous Gospel text is not as simple and straight forward as it seems on the surface. I do n...

THE THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 25:14-30 Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel puts the focus on the end of time for both the Church Year and, more importantly, it highlight...

THIRTY SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 25:1-13  Dear Friends, We are in the final three weeks of this Church year. This particular liturgical time has a special message fo...

THIRTY FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 23:1-12 Dear Friends, In my second or third year as a young priest, at the end of the Second Vatican Council, I began to tell people...

THIRTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 22:34-40 Dear Friends, The leaders once again are trying to entrap Jesus. Today’s Gospel selection is the third of four conflict sto...

THE TWENTY NINTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 22:15-21 Dear Friends Today’s Gospel has Jesus undergoing four conflicts with different groups. Each separate group tries to entrap ...

THE TWENTY EIGHTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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St. Matthew 22:1-14 Dear Friends, Today’s gospel from Matthew has many layers of meaning and challenges. There are two points I want to cons...

THE TWENTY SEVENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 21:33-43 Dear Friends, Our journey with the Gospel of Matthew is drawing to a conclusion. In the next few Sundays, we will have sele...

THE TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 21:28-32 Dear Friends, The events of today’s text from Matthew take place just after Jesus’s glorious entry into Jerusalem on the ba...

TWENTY FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 20:1-16 Dear Friends, Each Sunday the Gospel message invites us into a new world, a world where the values of Jesus call and challen...

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Mt 18:21-35 The Forgiving Community There is a clear message in this final section (Mt 18:21-35): Forgiveness is the life-blood of the lovi...

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Mt 18, 15-20 The second section of Matthew’s teaching on the church in chapter 18 (Mt 18:15-20) raises some truly challenging issues about t...

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 16: 21-27 Dear Friends, From time to time, when I am frustrated working with people, especially in the Church, I say Jesus made only...

THE TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 16:13-20 Dear Friends, Peter had quite a journey from the time Jesus asked him to leave his boat and nets and follow Him. He saw it ...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 15:21-28  Dear Friends, It is very hard for us to grasp how deeply the Jews at the time of Jesus cherished their role as the Chosen ...

THE NINETEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 14:22-33 Today’s Gospel story of Jesus walking on the water is filled with symbolism and echoes of the divine in the Old Testament. ...

TRANSFIGURATION

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Mt 17:1-9 Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel passage skips the opening phrase, “Six days later…” (Mt 17:1) These words are an important connection...

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 13:44-52  Dear Friends, Today is the third Sunday of parables in chapter thirteen in the Gospel of St. Matthew. Many scholars of the...

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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St. Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends, I had my introduction into this parable of the weeds and the wheat when I was a sophomore in high school....

FIFTEEN SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Mt 13:1-23  Dear Friends Today we begin the first of three Sundays exploring parables from chapter thirteen of St. Matthew. A parable is sim...