29th Saturday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.”—Lk 13:8-9 Today we hear another parable, this time about a fig tree. If that fig tree represents my faith, what […]
29th Friday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love…”—Eph 4:1-2 The refrain in the Responsorial Psalm today is, “Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.” I do long to see God’s face and […]
29th Thursday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!’”—Lk 12:49 Today’s Scripture seems to contradict that common image of Jesus as peace and love. This reference to being set on fire and ablaze does not refer to one that […]
29th Wednesday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”—Lk 12:48 God entrusted Father Bishop with a special mission to found a new community of missioners to serve in areas that almost no one else wanted to go. Likewise, each […]
29th Tuesday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.”—Lk 12:37 Look at how Jesus defines the role of the master and servant. The idea that the master will gird […]
29th Monday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “Then he told them a parable.”—Lk 12:13 How often we hear the word parable in Scripture. Jesus’ stories can seem too simple, almost childlike at first reading. Can they really have meaning for us today in a world that is so much more complicated than it was during Jesus’ time? Then again, […]
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
From today’s Scripture: “For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”—Mk 10:45 Today’s Gospel reminds me of the quote from Walt Whitman: “Be curious, not judgmental.” It is obvious from Apostles James’ and John’s demands of Jesus that they, […]
Sts. John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues & Companions
From today’s Scripture: “Everything indeed is for you, so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.” —2 Cor 4:15 Each of us is called to be a missionary. That is Christian tradition; and it is the wisdom of Father William […]
St. Luke
From today’s Scripture: “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” —Lk 10:2 From the beginning Father William Howard Bishop, founder of Glenmary, was inspired by the image of Jesus the Good Shepherd. It could be argued that from here […]
St. Ignatius of Antioch
From today’s Scripture: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.” —Jn 12:24 If Christ is the “seed or fruit” of salvation, then Mary’s womb effectively becomes the soilbed of salvation. […]
