Showing posts with label Cycle-b. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cycle-b. 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). Teresa of Avila, the great C...

Christ the King

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John 18: 33-37 Dear Friends, This feast has a clear and formidable message for us. It also has significant function in our liturgi...

Thirty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk 13:24-32 Dear Friends. As we come to the conclusion of each Church year we have a message about the end of the world. It is alw...

Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mark 12:41-44  Dear Friends, Like all of Jesus’ teachings, the story of the widow’s mite has many levels. At the time of Jesus, the r...

The Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk 12: 28-34  Dear Friends, Today’s exchange between Jesus and the surprisingly friendly scribe holds a true treasure for us. It is a...

Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mark 10: 46-52  Dear Friends, The Bartimaeus story seems like a simple miracle story but it is much more than that. It is the story o...

Twenty Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk 10: 35-45  Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel selection is part of a major section of Mark’s Gospel. In this long passage (Mk 8:22 10:52...

The Twenty Eighth Sunday of Ordinary

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Mark 10:17-30  Dear Friends, Right after my ordination, my best friend brought me a big problem. He was sure I had the answer after a...

Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk. 10:2-16 Dear Friends, This is a very complex Gospel selection. The conclusion of both sections was a radical and upsetting les...

Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk 9: 37-42 Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel has two main points: the good that occurs outside the community and the evil takes place ins...

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Mark 9:30-37 Dear Friends, Our Catholic Faith is often described as a service from the cradle to the grave. Actually, we are very empha...

The Twenty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary

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Mk 8: 27-35 This passage today is the centerpiece of Mark’s Gospel. All that preceded it leads up to the critical question of Jesus, ...

Twenty Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mk 7: 31-37 Dear Friends, I like to point out that there were thousands of deaf mutes in the time of Jesus. Only a few were cured. Th...

The Twenty second Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Dear Friends, Teresa of Avila has a great insight on today’s Gospel. In her classic on the spiritual life, T...

Twenty First Sunday of Ordinary Time

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John 6: 60-69 Dear Friends, This is the fifth selection from the Bread of Life discourse. In these last five weeks we have spent almos...

Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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 John 6: 51-58 Dear Friends, This is the fourth of the five Sundays on John’s chapter six discourse on the Bread of Life. Up to this po...

The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Jn 6:41-51 Dear Friends, Today’s Gospel continues the discourse on the Bread of Life in chapter six of John’s Gospel. Jesus’ messag...

Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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John 6:24-35 Dear Friends, The folks in today’s Gospel were happy with the free meal of fish and the bread but they had their eyes o...

Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mark 6: 30-34 Dear Friends, Jesus has a plan to take the disciples away for rest and prayer. He is sidetracked by the large gathering...

Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

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Mark 6: 7-13 Dear Friends, In the Gospel of Mark, the portrayal of the disciples is fascinating and challenging. In the beginning, the...