Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) – Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; First Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39. This series appears each Wednesday. The Bible is not just for churches and synagogues. Portions of it are read as literature, even in secular university [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) – Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalms 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9; First Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28. This series appears each Wednesday. I’ve read many term papers in my day. Most of them are no more than a patchwork of quotes. That’s because college [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) – Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalms 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; First Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20. This series appears each Wednesday. Peter and Andrew were businessmen. So were their neighbors, James and John. They tried to wring a living out of the [...]
Well, a recent survey should give Christians around the world an uplift because… Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s commentary on “A Persecuted Church and Its Heroes”. Father Barron can be found on the Internet at: Word On Fire CATHOLICISM Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, family [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) – First Samuel 3:3-10, 19; Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; First Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; John 1:35-42. This series appears each Wednesday. When I was growing up, we were urged to pray for vocations. That meant to pray for [...]
The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Have you ever felt that something you were doing was going so badly that you just wished you could start all over? Or maybe your life is not going that well and you realize that you are just not the person you should be. I would bet [...]
We have heard the story of the Epiphany — the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles represented by the wise men — so many times that the truly remarkable aspects of it, and their meaning, can be lost on us. That’s why today I would like to focus on three aspects of the account of [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the Solemnity of The Epiphany of the Lord – Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalms 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6; Matthew 2:1-12. This series appears each Wednesday. Up until now, all has been quite humble. A donkey-ride to a dusty town south of Jerusalem. Hotel rooms all booked [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the Feast of the Holy Family – Gn 15:1-6; 21:1-3; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Heb 11:8, 11-12, 17-19; Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22, 39-40. The Passion of the Christ was the most intense movie I’ve ever seen. But there was a moment of comic relief, a flashback [...]
Editor’s Note: Reflection on the Mass readings for the Octave of Christmas and Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – Numbers 6:22-27; Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:16-21. This series appears each Wednesday. The mother of the messiah has been called many things in the last 2000 years – the Virgin Mary, Our [...]
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