14th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, July 6
Genesis
32:23-33 / Matthew 32-38
Jacob gets a new name; "You shall be called Israel.”
14th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, July 5
14th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, July 5
Genesis
28:10-22 / Matthew 9:18-26
Jacob has a dream; He saw the Lord.
15th Sunday B: Called and Sent out
Introduction to the Celebration
We assemble as a people who have been called to be bearers of God’s love to all humanity.
We assemble as a people who have been called to be bearers of God’s love to all humanity.
Saints Peter and Paul -June 29
Starter Story:
The year was 1770, and in a small Italian church, two altar boys prepared for Benediction. Annibale Della Genga and Francesco Castiglioni entered the sacristy, put on their albs, and grabbed the heavy brass candlesticks. And then they began to bicker.
July 4th: American Independence Day
July 4 Saturday (U. S. Independence Day reflections on next page): Matthew 9:14-17: 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 And no one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” USCCB video reflections: http://www.usccb.org/bible/reflections/index.cfm
13th Week: June 28 – July 3:
13th Week: June 28 – July 3:
June 28 Monday (St. Irenaeus, Bishop, Martyr)
The context: Today’s Gospel passage explains the cost of Christian discipleship and the total commitment, wholehearted constancy, and sacrificial ministry that the Christian mission requires.
13th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, June 28
13th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, June 28
Genesis 18:16-33 / Matthew 8:18-22
Abraham bargains with God; "What if you find ten good people?"
14th Sunday: Jesus in this Home Town; No prophet is accepted in...
Michel DeVerteuil
Textual Comments
The gospel passage for this Sunday is St Mark’s version of Jesus’ return to his home town of Nazareth, accompanied by his disciples. He began to teach in Nazareth, and many were astonished by what they saw in him. They wondered where all this wisdom had come from. What they saw was very different from what others had seen. This man was one of them, in the deepest sense; they knew him and his family. The people of the town would not accept him; even though they had heard of his outstanding accomplishments in other places, they could not see what made him so special.
13 Sunday B: Talitha Koum: Healing is a Compassionate Ministry
Sickness and death have a way of shearing through the veneer of our self-importance and social status. These things touch us at our most vulnerable point. Sickness and death strip us of our illusions and remind us that, no matter how important we are in the eyes of others, we are still human—still very limited and transient citizens here on earth.
12th Week, Ordinary Time, Saturday, June 26
12th Week, Ordinary Time, Saturday, June 26
Genesis
18:1-15 / Matthew 8:5-17
In 1842, members of the U.S. Congress laughed when Samuel Morse explained his ideas for sending messages through a wire.
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