Showing posts with label Cycle-a. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cycle-a. Show all posts

The Feast of Christ the King

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Matthew 25:31-46  Dear Friends, This famous Gospel text is not as simple and straight forward as it seems on the surface.  I do ...

Well done, good and faithful servant

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Matthew 25:14-30  Dear Friends. The message for us in today’s Gospel is clear: to realize that God is calling us to use our time, talent and...

Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour

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Matthew 25:1-13  Dear Friends, As we draw near to the end of this Church year, in three weeks, the Church has a message for us about time. I...

Call me Tracy

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In my second or third year as a young priest, at the end of the Second Vatican Council, I began to tell people to drop the Father and just c...

Laurence Parish

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Dear Parishioners, I grew up in St. Laurence parish on the South Side of Chicago. It was a very beautiful and enriching experience in many w...

The Twenty Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Matthew 22:15-21  Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel is the first in a series of for different groups that try to entrap Jesus and thus endanger h...

The Twenty Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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St. Matthew 22: 1-14  Dear Friends, In today’s Gospel reading, Matthew has multiple messages. I want to delve into two points. We have recei...

The Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Matthew 21:33-43  Dear Friends, We are quickly approaching the end of the Church year with our journey in the Gospel of Matthew. The next se...

The Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Matthew 21:28-32  Dear Friends, today’s Gospel message has a context. It was after Jesus’s’ glorious entry into Jerusalem on the back of a d...

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 challe...

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mt 18:21-35   Dear Friends. Once again, Jesus uses the misinformed good will of Peter to lead us deeper into the mystery of God’s love. To ...

Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Matthew 18:15-20 Dear Friends, Today’s message of forgiveness and reconciliation is where the Gospel becomes concrete, where the rubber hits...

Sunday of 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 Testam...

A Slow Journey of Love for God’s Word

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I It was 1954, nine years before Vatican II. I was completely packed to leave for the Carmelite seminary. My dilemma was that I still had a ...

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Matthew 14: 13-21 Dear Friends,     Today’s passage in Matthew is about the loaves and fishes.  This story is appears six different times in...

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 o...

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 sch...