Bulletins and Homilies

The message in the gospel reading we just heard is very clear.  The teaching of Jesus challenges anyone who is wronged NOT to be just a victim, but rather to become an active participant in a new moral drama, one that seeks to turn one’s enemy or wrongdoer into one’s...

One of my favorite Gospel passages! This is second part of a series that began last week Together, they present an image, an icon, of the spiritual life, our spiritual life!   Recall last week… Jesus asks, “Who do YOU say that I am?” The eleven avoid eye contact...

We just heard Jesus pointedly ask the question: “But who do you say that I am?” I sometimes wonder if we hear that question as Jesus’ mid-gospel exam because we are about half-way through Matthew’s account of the gospel. So, it makes sense that Jesus might gather his...

Isaiah tells ‘US’ …thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is JUST; for My salvation is about to come, My justice, about to be revealed.      (pause)   . . . a Canaanite woman of that district…came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David!  My...

In this gospel reading, we just heard Elizabeth say to her cousin Mary: “Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”  As religious people, I think that when we look at the various situations and circumstances of our lives-...

We’ve all been in this kind of situation before.  It is not hard to imagine what it was like for the disciples that night as they crossed the Sea of Galilee. We need only think about the storms that have blown through our own lives. Think of a time when your life was...