OUT OF ORDER? – One Bread, One Body, Apr 27, 2014
Second Sunday of Easter, Mercy Sunday Acts 2:42-47 | 1 Peter 1:3-9 | Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 | John 20:19-31 The brethren “devoted themselves to the apostles’ instruction and the communal life, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” —Acts 2:42 “In the first community of Jerusalem, believers ‘devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and the prayers.’ This sequence is characteristic of the Church’s prayer” ( Catechism, 2624 , … More
March 30th 2014 – Fourth Sunday of Lent
Listen Here! Eyesight to the Blind Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-13 Psalm 23:1-6 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 God’s ways of seeing are not our ways, we hear in today’s First Reading. Jesus illustrates this in the Gospel – as the blind man comes to see and the Pharisees are made blind.
March 16th 2014 – Second Sunday of Lent
Listen Here! Listen to Him Readings: Genesis 12:1-4 Psalm 33:4-5,18-20, 22 2 Timothy 1:8-10 Matthew 17:1-9 Today’s Gospel portrays Jesus as a new and greater Moses. Moses also took three companions up a mountain and on the seventh day was overshadowed by the shining cloud of God’s presence.
February 9th 2014 – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Listen Here! Light Breaking Forth Isaiah 58:7-10 Psalm 112:4-9 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus came among us as light to scatter the darkness of a fallen world. As his disciples, we too are called to be “the light of the world,” he tells us in the Gospel this Sunday (see John 1:4–4, 9; 8:12; 9:5)
December 29th 2013 – Feast of the Holy Family
Listen Here! Saving Family Readings: Sirach 3:2-6,12-14 Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 Colossians 3:12-21 Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Underlying the wisdom offered in today’s Liturgy is the mystery of the family in God’s divine plan. The Lord has set father in honor over his children and mother in authority over her sons, we hear in today’s First Reading. As we sing in today’s Psalm, the blessings of the family flow from Zion, the heavenly mother of the royal people of God (see Isaiah 66:7,10-13; Galatians 4:26).