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.

WHEN THE MAJORITY DOESN’T RULE – One Bread, One Body, Jun 21, 2014

St. Aloysius Gonzaga 2 Chronicles 24:17-25 | Psalm 89:4-5, 29-34 | Matthew 6:24-34 “Though the Aramean force came with few men, the Lord surrendered a very large force into their power, because Judah had abandoned the Lord.” —2 Chronicles 24:24 How did a few atheists and secular humanists stop prayer in the public schools despite the fact that the great majority of Americans wanted prayer in the schools?

PRAYER-POWER – One Bread, One Body, Jun 19, 2014

St. Romuald Sirach 48:1-14 | Psalm 97:1-7 | Matthew 6:7-15 “This is how you are to pray: ‘Our Father in heaven…’ ” —Matthew 6:9 Elijah’s “words were as a flaming furnace” (Sir 48:1)

STAYING POWER – One Bread, One Body, Jun 18, 2014

2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 | Psalm 31:20-21, 24 | Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 “You have asked for something that is not easy.” —2 Kings 2:10 Elijah was about to be taken up to God. Elisha, his successor, asked Elijah: “May I receive a double portion of your spirit?” (2 Kgs 2:9). Elijah told him that he had “asked for something that is not easy” (2 Kgs 2:10)