Reflection for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sirach 27:30 – 28:7 (RM) or Genesis 50: 15-21 (RCL); Psalm 103; Romans 14: 7-9 (RM) or 1-12 (RCL); Matthew 18: 21-35. This is so, so hard. God, is this…
Reflection for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Ezekiel 33: 7-9 (RM) or 7-11 (RCL); Psalm 95 (RM) or 119 (RCL); Romans 13: 8-10 (RM) or 8-14 (RCL); Matthew 18: 15-20. If you have a family member, a…
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jeremiah 20: 7-9 (RM) or Jeremiah 15: 15-21 (RCL); Psalm 63 (RM) or 26 (RCL); Romans 12: 1-2 (RM) or Romans 12: [1-2] 19-21 (RCL); Matthew 16: 21-27 (RM) or…
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time / Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 22: 19-23 (RM) or Isaiah 51: 1-6; Psalm 138; Romans 11: 33-36 (RM) or Romans 12: 1-8 (RCL); Matthew 16: 13-20. What’s in a name? Maybe, a mistaken identity?…
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 56: 1, 6-7 (RM) or 1, 6-8 (RCL); Psalm 67; Romans 11: 13-15, 29-32 (RM) or 1-2a, 29-32 (RCL); Matthew 15: 21-28 (RM) or (10-20), 21-28 (RCL). It’s happened…
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time or Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
1 Kings 19: 9a, 11-13a (RM) or 9-18 (RCL); Psalm 85; Romans 9: 1-5 (RM) or Romans 10: 5-15 (RCL); Matthew 14: 22-33. Suddenly becoming aware of your vulnerability is…
Feast of the Transfiguration or Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Daniel 7: 9-10, 13-14 (RM) or Isaiah 55: 1-5 (RCL); Psalm 97 (RM) or 145 (RCL) 2 Peter 1: 16-19 (RM) or Romans 9: 1-5 (RCL); Matthew 17: 1-9 (RM)…
Ordinary Time
In Balay Euphrasie, Davao this week we have been having conversations about Liturgy. I was reminded of how my eyes were opened to celebrating the Liturgical Season of Ordinary Time,…
Reflection for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
1 Kings 3: 5-12 (RM in Canada and RCL) or 5, 7-12 (RM in U.S.); Psalm 119; Romans 8: 28-30 (RM) or 26-39 (RCL); Matthew 13: 44-52(RM) or 31-33, 44-52…
Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Wisdom 12: 13, 16-19 (RM); Psalm 86; Romans 8: 26-27 (RM) or 12-25 (RCL); Matthew 13: 24-43 (RM) or 24-30, 36-43 (RCL). This year I called an amnesty on the…