Replacing the Pharisee and Tax Collector
It’s obvious who the bad guy is in this Gospel. If this parable were a movie, he might as well be Darth Vader or some guy with a handlebar mustache and shifty eyes tying someone up to a railroad track...
Category: Scripture Reflection
Life is Prayer, Prayer is Life
A reflection on the readings for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 16, 2022. In 2019, while preaching my homily on the same scripture readings we have today, I said, “I would like to take 2019 and just throw...
Giving Thanks to the Lord
A reflection on the readings for October 9, 2022, the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. A little boy fell off a pier into deep ocean water. Nearby was an older sailor who, heedless of the great danger to himself, dove...
Lord, Increase Our Faith
A scripture reflection for October 2, 2022, the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. You may remember “The Secret Life of Mother Teresa,” the September 3, 2007 Time Magazine cover story about St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Journalist David Van Biema...
Irritation forms pearls
A reflection on the readings for September 25, 2022 — the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Oysters are ugly, strange-looking little animals. Like so many things throughout the world, they seem like they could be from another planet. But, as you...
Praise the Lord Who Lifts up the Poor
A reflection on the readings of September 18, 2022 — the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The audio, when available, will be posted here. At a Labor Day Mass one year, I offered a reflection on the Church’s teaching on...
Knowing the Father’s Love and Mercy
A reflection on the readings for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 11, 2022. “Filled with compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.” The parables of mercy, three of which we hear today, are meant...
Our Epitaphs Are Yet To Be Written
A reflection on the readings for September 4, 2022 – the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. It happened in a serendipitous moment, but I learned a little late that it is not enough to have goals in life, but that...
Humility, the queen of virtues
A reflection on the readings for August 28, 2022, the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time. One of the most formative moments of my life came during the end of the first semester of my first year in college. Being a...
Salvation for all
A reflection on the Mass Readings for August 21, 2022, the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time. Audio of Homily will be posted here. Today, I would like to reflect on the same question that the disciples asked Jesus, “Will only a...
Set the world on fire!
A reflection on the Scripture readings for August 14, 2022, the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. “Francis, leave this place and set the world on fire!” These were the last words that St. Ignatius of Loyola spoke to St. Francis Xavier...
The Common Home of the Master
A reflection on the readings for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – August 7, 2022. On August 3rd, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke about the energy crisis in the world and the harm it is causing to our...
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