text 18th Sunday of the Year: Living Bread The restrictions imposed because of the COVID pandemic have prevented many Christians from regular…
text 17th Sunday of the Year: Multiplication Factor If not all eyes are fixed on the Tokyo Olympics, at least several hundred million are at any given…
text 16th Sunday of the Year: Reason to hope Watching the cottonwood seed tufts floating lazily by on a golden afternoon in rural Ireland,…
text 15th Sunday of the Year: Choosing Life Much of Europe and even North America has little on its collective mind (for a change) other than…
text 14th Sunday of the Year: The Cost of Freedom Freedom is like the air we breathe – we hardly notice it until it is challenged, threatened, or…
text 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Peril of the Seas Until the 20th century, humankind was often in peril of the sea, even a small one like Lake…
text 11th Sunday of the Year: The Gardening of God God is a better gardener than I am, for sure. About fifteen years ago, I planted a Cedar of Lebanon…
text Trinity Sunday 2021: A Dance of Perfect Harmony [Summer may be acumin in, even on Tuesday according to meteorologists, but my fingers are stiff…
text Pentecost 2021: The Breath of Life Tonight, after Vespers, the paschal candle will be snuffed out, bringing to a close the great…
text Ascension (7th Sunday of Easter) 2021: Forever Present Today, as the Holy Land finds itself again embroiled in savage and indiscriminate slaughter, many…
text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2021: Honor Thy Mother! Mother’s Day dawned here on a chilly, drizzly morning, but that didn’t matter to the thousands of…
text Fifth Sunday of Easter: 2 May 2021 — The Bond of Love Today’s gospel reading is taken from Jesus’ long exhortation to his disciples at the Last Supper,…
text Fourth Sunday of Easter: Fateful Recognition After the revisions of the liturgy following the Second Vatican Council, this fourth Sunday of…
text 3rd Sunday of Easter: Recognizing Jesus We are still in the upper room this Sunday, as if the celebration of our eucharist lodged us with…
text Second Sunday of Easter 2021: The Quality of Mercy The Sunday after Easter, which is also known with greater reason as Resurrection Sunday, has even…
text Easter Day 2021: Light in a Dark Time Death’s strong bands have been broken! That good news could hardly come at a more needed time,…
text Palm Sunday: March 28 2021 It hardly needs noting that we live in vexed and troubled times, not very much different from the…
text 5th Sunday of Lent 2021: The Everlasting Covenant Today western Christians begin the last full week of Lent, which ends with Holy Thursday and the…
text 4th Sunday of Lent 2021: the Rite of Return There doesn’t seem to be much joy in today’s readings, at least not at first glance. And…
text 3rd Sunday of Lent 2021: Peace Pilgrims It has been almost 21 years since Pope John Paul II visited Egypt, Jordan, and the Holy Land, where…
text 2nd Sunday of Lent: Beloved Sons Back in 1974, as I contemplated a year at Oxford, I had planned to study under the watchful eye of…
text 1st Sunday in Lent 2021: A fresh start? It seems that no matter how many hills we climb, or how dark the night, there’s another one to deal…
text Sixth Sunday of the Year: Honor, Love, and Cherish Although today’s readings focus on disease, specifically leprosy, and more importantly, compassion…
text Fifth Sunday of the Year: AKA Sexagesima Buccaneers versus Chiefs might sound like an episode from Peter Pan – if you were born on a…
