21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 66:18-21 Psalm 117:1, 2 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Who is welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven? The Jews saw themselves as a chosen people, the only ones who would get into the Kingdom of Heaven. They did little to share the faith with others. So, it would sound …
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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18 (14b) Hebrews 12:1-4 Luke 12:49-53 Jesus tells us that he comes to bring division, to set father against son and mother against daughter, and in-laws fighting. The thing is, we don’t need Jesus help with this. We can find enough to fight …
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Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Lawrence. He was a deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II and was martyred in 258 A.D. Yesterday we celebrated the optional memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (aka Edith Stein) who was martyred during World War II. Our Catholic Church has a long history of martyrs …
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 18:6-9 Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Luke 12:32-48 Last week we saw Jesus’ reaction to the man who asks him to tell his brother to share the inheritance. Jesus wasn’t interested in talking about inheritance. Jesus told the parable of the rich man with a bountiful …
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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:21-23 Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 A person comes to Jesus with a request, to tell his brother to share the inheritance with me. Jesus seems to brush off the question. Jesus isn’t interested in “inheritance.” Now one might ask isn’t inheritance …
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If you look at today’s gospel, you will see it begin with Jesus saying “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind.” I think that is all some people hear today and they think everyone gets into Heaven. God WANTS everyone to get into Heaven but if …
Tomorrow I complete my first month at St. Michael’s in Newark. Of course, the month has been full of meeting new people. Every parishioner is a new face to me. While every person has been a new face to me, there still have been connections to the past. One of the parishioners here is the …
Today’s (7/26/16) first reading comes from the Book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah served as a prophet in a time when people had fallen away from faith in our God. The people faced a very difficult time and wondered if God had abandoned them. Of course, God had not. God was simply allowing them to suffer the …
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Genesis 18:20-32 Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 Jesus tells us to ask and we will receive, seek and we will find. Probably not many of us would have to think much to come up with something we have asked for and haven’t received. Why …
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16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Genesis 18:1-10a Psalm 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 I know people who when they hear this gospel the question comes up so are like Martha or Mary? Are you a doer or are you one to sit by and observe? I think we need to take …
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