Reflection for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Amos 8: 4-7; Psalm 113; 1 Timothy 2: 1-8 (RM) or 1-7 (RCL); Luke 16: 1-13 or 10-13 (RM) or 1-13 (RCL) Well now we’ve seen everything. The Bible advocating…
Reflection for the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Exodus 32: 7-11, 13-14 (RM) or 7-14 (RCL); Psalm 51; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-32 or 1-10 (RM) or 1-10 (RCL) I was at work in the university…
Reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time / Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Wisdom 9: 13-18b (RM) or Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 (RCL); Psalm 90 or 1; Philemon: 9-10, 12-17 (RM) or Philemon: 1-21 (RCL); Luke 14: 25-33 Really, you’d think it would have…
Reflection for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost C
Sirach 3: 17-18, 20, 28-29 (RM) or Sirach 10: 12-18 (RCL); Psalm 68 or 112; Hebrews 12: 18-19, 22-24a (RM) or Hebrews 13: 1-8, 15-16 (RCL); Luke 14: 1, 7-14…
Reflection for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost C
Isaiah 66: 18-21(RM) or 58: 9b-14 (RCL); Psalm 117 or 103; Hebrews 12: 5-7, 11-13 (RM) or 18-23 (RCL); Luke 13: 22-30 (RM) or 10-17 (RCL) There’s a toxic and…
Reflection for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Tenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10 (RM) or 23: 23-29 (RCL); Psalm 40 or 82; Hebrews 12: 1-4 (RM) or 11: 29-12:2 (RCL); Luke 12: 49-53 (RM) or 49-56 (RCL.) “When you…
Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Ninth Sunday after Pentecost C
Wisdom 18: 6-9(RM) or Genesis 15: 1-6 (RCL); Psalm 33; Hebrews 11: 1-2, 8-19 (RM) or 1-3, 8-16 (RCL); Luke 12: 32-48.The Gospel of Luke seems to have a thing…
Reflection for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 (RM) or 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 (RCL); Psalm 90 (RM) or 49 (RCL); Colossians 3: 1-5, 9-11 (RM) or 1-11 (RCL); Luke 12: 13-21.A cartoon that appeared in…
Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Seventh Sunday after Pentecost C
Genesis 18: 20-32; Psalm 138; Colossians 2: 12-14 (RM) or 6-15 (RCL); Luke 11: 1-13. The child was horrified. “Also such a beast!” One of my theology professors told this…
Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixth Sunday after Pentecost C
Genesis 18: 1-10a; Psalm 15; Colossians 1: 24-28 (RM) or 15-28 (RCL); Luke 10: 38-42. Either/or, A/not A, right/wrong binary splits are easy. Too easy. They might provide a way…