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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Monday of the Twenty-second Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today Jesus tussles not with the scribes and Pharisees as he often does, but instead with the people of his own home town. They are amazed at his words and speak highly of him, right up until the … Continue reading
Twenty-second Sunday of Ordinary Time [B]
Today’s readings What is it that you have brought with you to Mass today? That, I think, is the real question our readings are asking us. What’s at issue is what it takes to be a follower of God, a … Continue reading
Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings How wonderful it is to be known by God. Today the Psalmist prays, “O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.” … Continue reading
Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today our Liturgy of the Word gives us the last of the readings from St. John’s Gospel that we call the Bread of Life Discourse. We’ve been reading from that one chapter of John – chapter six – … Continue reading
St. Pius X, pope
Today’s readings In our first reading today, Ruth had already figured out the teaching that Jesus spoke about in our Gospel reading. She refused to leave her mother-in-law alone, even though she herself was from a distant land and a … Continue reading
Wednesday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings We spend a lot of time, too much time really, looking at other people and what is going on with them. We can be so worried that others will end up with something better than what we have, … Continue reading
Tuesday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Gospel reading follows immediately after yesterday’s in which the rich young man went away sad, not knowing how he could attain eternal life, because he had many possessions. Today, Jesus explains to his disciples what was going … Continue reading
Monday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings So the question today is, what is it that holds us back? The rich young man seemed to have it all together: he acknowledged Jesus as the good teacher, so he must have been familiar with what Jesus … Continue reading
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time [B]
Today’s readings Today we have set before us two tables. One is the incredibly rich banquet of wisdom, and the other is, I don’t know, the fast food of foolishness, I guess. The question is, at which table have we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bread of Life discourse, Eucharist, foolishness, wisdom
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