Homily Twenty-Third Sunday Year C Reading 1: Who can know the mind of God? God is perfect; we are imperfect. God is uncreated Spirit; we are created body and spirit. Our body...
"Why do we keep hiding our deepest feelings from each other? We suffer much, but we also have great gifts of healing for each other. The mystery is that by hiding our pain...
Twenty-third Sunday Gospel CGreat crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, · Jesus gives some reflections on the role and life of a disciple. “If anyone comes to me without...
“We have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16).As Christians, we are to strive to have the mind of Christ as the guiding principle governing our thoughts, words and deeds. This is a...
"With fear and trembling work out your salvation," (Phil 2:12) St. Philip Neri used to say, that he who does not seek, above all things, the salvation of his soul, is a fool....
"Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1Cor 1:24)St. Paul connects these qualities of Jesus to his death and resurrection. To the ordinary, unbelieving person, death on a cross is...
Homily: Twenty-second Sunday Year C Reading 1: What is humility? We are who we are in the eyes of God and no more. If we embrace this truth, then we will be...
"Christians must be on guard against the spirit of worldliness that confuses and blurs the lines between what is good and what is evil. The Holy Spirit brings you to God and if...
Twenty-second Sunday Gospel COn a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those...
"It would be well if we were in the habit {83} of looking at all we have as God's gift, undeservedly given, and day by day continued to us solely by His mercy....
"To be a Christian is one of the most wondrous and awful gifts in the world. It is, in one sense, to be higher than Angel or Archangel. If we have any portion...
Galatians 2:19b-20"I have been crucified with Christ, and the life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me. I still live my human life, but it is a life...
In the scriptures we read about many people who were zealous for the Lord. The most important example was Jesus. In cleansing of the Temple he was fulfilling the prophetic word of the...
Homily Twenty-First Sunday Year C Reading 1: Isaiah is prophesying about the future plan of God. This is the beginning of what will later be known as God’s plan for universal salvation....
"You hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were so much better in former times. I wonder what would happen if they could be taken back to the days...
Twenty-first Sunday Gospel CJesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” · Jesus focuses the...
Jesus reminded us that we are in the world but not to be of the world. While in the world we are to recognize and celebrate the beauty and goodness of God's creation....
"It was necessary that she who preserved her virginity inviolate in childbirth should also have her body kept free from corruption after death. It was necessary that she who carried the Creator as...
Obedience can look upon in two ways as St John Cardinal Newman reflects. On is the excellent one: obedience on habit. The other is the more human way: obedience on custom. "The one...
"Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." (Hebrews 12:14) On reflecting on this St. John Cardinal Newman wrote: "If holiness be not merely the doing a certain number of good actions,...
Homily: Twentieth Sunday Year C Reading 1: Jeremiah is a foreshadowing of Jesus. God sent him to warn the Israelites of the consequences of their sinning against God and not living up...
The human life has three parts, gradually rising, namely the first is good, the second is better, and the third i s the best. The first part is the life of nature. It...
Reflections on Scripture Twentieth Sunday Gospel C The cost of discipleship
By spiritaflame 10:45 AMTwentieth Sunday Gospel CJesus aid to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! · What is this “fire” Jesus is referring to? It...
"I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God." (St. Dominic)This seems to be one of the consistent...
“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us, in a single instant, exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same...
“We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection” (St. John Vianney)God created us in his own image and likeness. Are we reflecting his image in...
Homily Nineteenth Sunday Year C Reading 1: “The night was known beforehand.” This was the night of the Passover, when God delivered his people from their bondage in Egypt. God revealed himself...
St. Catherine of Genoa said one day to the Lord: "My God, you wish me to love my neighbor, but I can love no one but you." The Lord said to her in...
Nineteenth Sunday Gospel CJesus said to his disciples: “Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. · Why do you think the Father is...
I had a friend who if he heard something about another couldn't refrain from telling others. It went from his ear through his mouth, rather than in one ear and out the other....
We are called to be rich in the matters which pertain to God. When we were baptized, we were adopted as sons and daughters of God, who gave us the down payment of...
