July 27th 2014 – Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Listen Here! Treasures of the Kingdom 1 Kings 3:5,7-12 Psalm 119:57,72,76-77,127-130 Romans 8:28-30 Matthew 13:44-52 What is your new life in Christ worth to you? Do you love His words more than gold and silver, as we sing in today’s Psalm?
July 20th 2014 – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Listen Here! Of Wheat and Weeds Readings: Wisdom 12:13,16-19 Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 Romans 8:26-27 Matthew 13:24-43 God is always teaching His people, we hear in today’s First Reading. And what does He want us to know? That He has care for all of us, that though He is a God of justice, even those who defy and disbelieve Him may hope for His mercy if they turn to Him in repentance
July 6th 2014 – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Listen Here! A Yoke for the Childlike Readings: Zechariah 9:9-10 Psalm 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14 Romans 8:9, 11-13 Matthew 11:25-30 Jesus is portrayed in today’s Gospel as a new and greater Moses.
June 29th 2014 – Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul
Listen Here! The Apostles’ Church Readings: Acts 12:1–11 Psalm 34:2–9 2 Timothy 4:6–8, 17–18 Matthew 16:13–19 This Sunday’s celebration of the great apostles Peter and Paul is a celebration of the Church. Peter’s deliverance from jail is compared to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Like Israel he is rescued at Passover from “the hand” of his enemy by an “angel of the Lord” after girding himself with belt, sandals, and cloak (see Ex 3:8; 12:8, 11–12; 14:19)
June 29th 2014 – Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul
Listen Here! The Apostles’ Church Readings: Acts 12:1–11 Psalm 34:2–9 2 Timothy 4:6–8, 17–18 Matthew 16:13–19 This Sunday’s celebration of the great apostles Peter and Paul is a celebration of the Church. Peter’s deliverance from jail is compared to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. Like Israel he is rescued at Passover from “the hand” of his enemy by an “angel of the Lord” after girding himself with belt, sandals, and cloak (see Ex 3:8; 12:8, 11–12; 14:19)