Showing posts with label CYCLE-A-2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CYCLE-A-2026. Show all posts

PALM SUNDAY

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Down through history we have had numerous distortions of the gospel message. When I was young, our celebration of Lent had clearly lost its ...

THE FIFRH SUNDAY OF LENT

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John 11:1-45  On this Fifth Sunday of Lent, we have the beautiful story of Lazarus. This is the third story of our Lenten message from John’...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

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John 9:1-41  Dear Friends, Once again, we have a story of conversion from St. John on our Lenten journey. Jesus is the Light of the World c...

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

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Jn 4:4-42  Dear Friends, In the next three weeks of our Lenten journey, there are three episodes addressing the sinful condition of our huma...

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

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Mt 17:1-9  Dear Friends, Lent is a time to prepare to celebrate the Death and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ with new joy, stronger faith ...

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

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Mt 4:1-11  Dear Friends, One of the many blessings of Vatican II was a return to the importance of the Word of God in the Bible. This led to...

SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Mt. 5:17-37  Dear Friends, In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is inviting us to totally change our value system. He is calling us to a conver...

FIFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Mt. 5:13-16  Dear Friends, Here is an amazing statistic about the religious scene in the US. Roman Catholics are the largest religious group...

THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Matthew 5:1-12  Dear Friends, On this Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we have the first gospel selectin of the next five Sundays. This is ou...

THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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Mt 4:12-23  Dear Friends, Today we have our first selection from the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus introduces two themes that will be the foundat...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

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John 1:29-34  Dear Friends, St. Matthew is our guide as we walk with Jesus in the beginning of Ordinary Time of our liturgical year. I alway...

THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

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Matthew 3:13-17  Dear Friends, St. Matthew begins the public life of Jesus with the Baptism of the Son of God. In spite of the Baptist’s rel...

EPIPHANY

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Mt 2:1-12  Dear Friends, The Infancy Narratives in Matthew in chapters one and two are called a miniature Gospel. They affirm three basic po...

HOLY FAMILY

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Mt2:13-5, 19-23  Dear Friends. The fundamental message of our Christmas Season is that “the Word was made flesh” (Jn 1:14) . The emphasis is...

CHIRISTMAS REFLECTION

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As we celebrate this Christmas day the truth is that we have no place on earth and no individual that is free from the consequences of our f...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 1:18-24 Dear Friends, No matter how much we try, it is a truly an uphill battle to truly grasp , “Jesus is the reason for the Season!” Ov...

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Mt 11:2-11 Dear Friends, In today’s Scripture, Isaiah draws a poetic picture of the Jews walking away into freedom after fifty years of angu...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matt 3:1-12 Dear Friends. Advent is an invitation to ponder the Christian perspective on time. Time, for the Christian, is not the relentles...

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

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Matthew 24:37-44 Dear Friends, Advent invites us into a new year in which we journey with the Gospel of Matthew. This is a graced time when ...