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

ACTS OF APOSTLES – One Bread, One Body, Jun 7, 2014

Pentecost Novena – Day 9 Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 | Psalm 11:4-5, 7 | John 21:20-25 “Your business is to follow Me.” —John 21:22 Today, on the last day of our novena to the Holy Spirit and the next to last day of the Easter season, we read the last words of the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of John . May today be the last time we refuse to act on God’s …

SUBMISSION, UNITY, AND WORK – One Bread, One Body, May 22, 2014

St. Rita of Cascia Acts 15:7-21 | Psalm 96:1-3, 10 | John 15:9-11 “It is my judgment, therefore, that we ought not to cause God’s Gentile converts any difficulties.” —Acts 15:19 The early Church had been working for almost twenty years in proclaiming the Gospel and building God’s kingdom. Many of them had been martyred.

ONLY JESUS LOVES NOBODIES – One Bread, One Body, Apr 26, 2014

Easter Week Acts 4:13-21 | Psalm 118:1, 14-21 | Mark 16:9-15 “What shall we do with these men?” —Acts 4:15 Like the apostles in today’s Gospel reading, many Christians today are stubborn and lacking in faith (Mk 16:14). Like Peter and John, most Christians in the world are uneducated and unimportant by the world’s standards (Acts 4:13).