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:...

June 1, 2025 Luke 24: 46-53 The Ascension is both an ending and a beginning. The Gospel from Luke today treats the ending of Jesus’ life...

May 25, 2025 John 14:23-29 In his book, Beginning to Pray, Archbishop Anthony Bloom relates this incident. It is the time of Russian...

May 18, 2025 John 13: 31-33a, 34-35 After the washing of the feet, in John’s Gospel, which we have just heard today, Jesus says: “My...

May 11, 2025 John 10: 27-30 This gospel selection is only four verses long; but they describe for us how sheep communicate with their...

May 4, 2025 John 20: 1-19 Do you think it is possible that Peter went out to cast his nets that night out of love? Peter very well could...