October 26, 2025 Luke 18: 9-14 In this chapter of Luke’s gospel, we are continuing with parables that are unique to Luke and stop us in our usual way of thinking. Even today we can feel some shock at what this parable holds up for us; but in our time it would be as if some really well-known and respected preacher would say, ‘A pope and a pimp, went into St. Peters’ to pray;’ or perhaps today, we would say ‘an insider trader on Wall Street,’ or, ‘a U.S. government official

October 19, 2025 Luke 18: 1-8 For several Sundays we have been reflecting in the gospels on how we are charged with furthering the Kingdom of God by our actions, by how we live. Today the message has a little different twist. Today we are reminded that part of our mission as a Christian, as Christ’s presence today, is in our prayer. It is not our actions or example alone that brings about the kingdom. We are told by Jesus to pray without losing heart. Our prayer often do

October 12, 2025 Luke 17: 11-19 In today’s gospel, what is the thing that made everything else recounted in it possible. Remember the scene is set with the Jesus on his way to Jerusalem by the alternate route through Samaria. As he goes on his way, 10 lepers beg Jesus to have pity on them. It is at this point that Jesus has a choice to make. First, will he help them; second, in what way? The lepers were about the most unwelcome people to any one at that time who did not

October 5, 2025 Luke 17: 5-10 In today’s gospel reading from Luke, we have a saying of Jesus and one of his stories The saying about the mustard seed appears in all of the gospels except John, the gospels we call the synoptic gospels. The story about the servant, or really slave in the text, appears only in Luke. Why do you suppose they are put together like this? We often complain that our faith doesn’t seem to be enough. I go to work; I work hard and long hours; I pray, but

September 28, 2025 Luke 16: 19-31 In the past, when I read today’s gospel, my thoughts were always on Lazarus and how his hardships won...

September 21, 2025 Luke 16: 1-13 Both the first reading from Amos and the gospel from Luke talk about dishonest business practices. But...

September 14, 2025 As we know the first symbol of Christianity was not a cross, but a fish. Perhaps it was the fish when the first...

September 7, 2025 Luke 14: 25-33 The Book of Wisdom is correct in telling us in the first reading that “Scarce do we guess the things of...

August 31, 2025 Luke 14: 1,7-14 What is the main point of today’s Gospel reading? Is it that we should carefully calculate the social...

August 24, 2025 Luke 13: 22-30 Through the centuries people of faith has been fixed on how to be saved. We sometimes make the answer to...

August 10, 2025 Luke 12: 32-48 Do you know what the Boy Scout Motto is? I remember it well: Be Prepared! As a Scout I used to try to keep...

August 3, 2025 Luke 12: 13-21 All three readings today remind us that what is important is invisible to the eye. The reading from...

July 27, 2025 Luke 11: 1-13 In the first part of today’s gospel from Luke, Jesus is telling his disciples how to pray as they asked him...

July 20, 2025 Luke 10: 38-42 The first reading from Genesis sets before us today the idea of hospitality. We see a scene of the lavish...

July 13, 2025 Luke 10: 25-37 The question the ‘scholar of the law’ asked in today’s gospel reading from Luke is one that still worries us...

July 6, 2025 Luke 10: 1-12, 17-20 Last Sunday on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, our attention was drawn to what is means to accept...

June 29, 2025 Matthew 7 : 1 -23 Just last Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. It is a happy coincidence that this very...

June 22, 2025 Luke 9: 11b-17 We celebrate today the lasting presence of Jesus Christ in his church, a great and monumental event. And...

June 15, 2025 John 16: 12-15 A friend of mine told me about attending mass in a nursing home. There was a women at Mass who had not...

June 8, 2025 John 20: 19-23 It may be strange to say, but the feast of Pentecost is all about unity. It is about unity in two ways:...