Showing posts with label CYCLE-B-2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CYCLE-B-2024. Show all posts

Trinity Sunday

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Jn 16: 12-15 Dear Friends, Jesus said, “I have much more to tell you but you cannot bear it.” (Jn 16: 12). Our celebration of this feast of ...

CHRIST THE KING

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Jn 18:33-37 Dear Friends, Today’s readings on this last Sunday of the Church Year have a clear and powerful message. Besides the celebration...

THEN THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS

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Thirty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Mk 13:24-32 Dear Friends, The apocalyptic language that Mark uses in today’s gospel passage lends itsel...

THE ILLUSION OF WEALTH MAKES US THINK WE ARE IN CONTROL

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Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 12:38-44 Dear Friends, Today’s gospel places the self-promotion of the Scribes and the heroic gen...

YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

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Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time Mk 12:28-34 Dear Friends, In his response the scribe’s question, Jesus begins with the phrase, “Hear O ...

WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU

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Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 10: 46-52 Dear Friends, For two and half chapters (Mk 8:22-10:52) , Mark has Jesus challenging the di...

THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED

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Twenty Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time Mk 10:35-45 Dear Friends,Today’s passage from Mark is preceded by the most detailed foretelling of the ...

SO YOU WILL HAVE A TREASURE IN HEAVEN

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The Twenty Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 10:17-30 Dear Friends, Right after my ordination in 1962, a very good friend, Bob, gave me a ...

LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME

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Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Mk 10:2-16 Dear Friends,The seemingly arbitrary connection between the issue of divorce and the rejec...

DO NOT PREVENT THEM

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Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 9: 38-43, 45, 47-48. Dear Friends, What seems like a simple lesson in Mark’s gospel passage for to...

WHOEVER RECEIVES ONE CHILD SUCH AS THIS IN MY NAME, RECEIVES ME

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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 9:30-37  Dear Friends, Our Catholic Faith is often described as a service from the cradle to the g...

“WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

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The Twenty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time  Mk 8:27-35  Dear Friends, This encounter between Jesus and Peter identifies the centerpiece of Ma...

Ephphatha

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Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 7:31-37 Dear Friends, In the world that Mak addresses in his Gospel, the people had a much more in...

THEIR HEARTS ARE FAR FROM ME

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Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Dear Friends. Often in the Gospels, we find that Jesus’ conflict with the Pha...

“MASTER, TO WHOM SHALL WE GO?

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Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time John 6:60-69 Dear Friends, In these last five weeks we have been pondering Jesus as the Bread of Life. ...

JESUS THE BREAD OF LIFE

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Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time John 6:51-58 Dear Friends, Today we continue our journey with John’s theme of the Bread of Life. Up to thi...

JESUS AS THE BREAD OF LIFE IN THE EUCHARIST

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Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time John 6:41-51 Dear Friends, In today’s liturgy we continue the discourse on the Bread of Life in chapter s...

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE

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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time John 6:24-35  Dear Friends, The folks in today’s Gospel were happy with the free meal of fish and bread b...

JESUS ​​TOOK THE LOAVES AND DISTRIBUTED THEM

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Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary time Jn 6:1-15 Dear Friends, For the next five weeks we move from Mark to John for our gospel readings. We ta...

HIS HEART WAS MOVED WITH PITY FOR THEM

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Dear Friends, Jesus has a plan to take the disciples away for rest and prayer. He is sidetracked by the large gathering of people. Mark says...