The Sunday Gospel
The most precious pearl
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 13:44-52 The First Book of Kings is the source of this weekend’s first reading. As might be supposed, the two books of Kings deal […]
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Take care to nourish the seeds of faith
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 13:24-43 The Book of Wisdom provides this weekend’s first reading. Wisdom is the name not only of this book of the Old Testament, but […]
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If we have died with Christ, we will also live with him
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42 This weekend’s first reading is from the first of two books in the Bible that bear a name suggesting that they are about […]
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‘Even all the hairs of your head are counted’
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:26-33 The Book of Jeremiah supplies this weekend’s first reading. Jeremiah wrote at a time when life was hard for God’s chosen people. Only […]
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‘I am the living bread, come down from heaven’
Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ John 6:51-58 This weekend the church celebrates the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, perhaps better known by its Latin […]
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The Trinity calls us to see that love is of God
Feast of the Holy Trinity John 3:16-18 This weekend the church celebrates the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. “The Trinity” is the scholarly, theological term to describe the most […]
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Together, Christians bear God’s mission
Feast of Pentecost John 20:19-23 Pentecost, the feast celebrated on this weekend, is the greatest day of the church’s year, save for Easter and Christmas. It is interesting in this […]
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‘You will be my witnesses … to the ends of the earth’
Feast of the Ascension of the Lord Matthew 28:16-20 This weekend, many dioceses in the United States liturgically celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Other dioceses observe […]
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The Holy Spirit will strengthen us to live in him
Sixth Sunday of Easter John 14:15-21 The Acts of the Apostles once again this Easter season furnishes the first reading. In the readings of the weekends earlier in this season, […]
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The apostles’ blueprint for forming faith communities
Fifth Sunday of Easter John 14:1-12 Once again this season, the Acts of the Apostles provides the first reading. The early chapters of Acts graphically reveal to us the lives […]
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Those who turn from Jesus, the Good Shepherd, walk into peril
Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10:1-10 Readings from the Acts of the Apostles frequently occur during the Easter season. They clearly show not just life in general in the first […]
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May our eyes be opened, so that we might know Him
Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24:13-35 Again, as is usual for weekends of the Easter season, the Acts of the Apostles provides the first reading for the Liturgy of the […]