When Love Becomes Action
Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time A / Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost A / Reformation Readings: Exodus 22: 21-27 (RM in Canada) or 20-26 (RM in the U.S.)…
Give to Caesar: Faith, Conscience, and the Cost of Discipleship
Reflection for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 45: 1, 4-6 (RM) or 1-7 (RCL); Psalm 96; 1 Thessalonians1: 1-5b (RM) or…
Finding Inner Peace in a Troubled World
Reflection for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 25: 6-10a (RM) or 1-9 (RCL); Psalm 23; Philippians 4: 12-14, 19-20 (RM) or…
What Should the Church Hold On To and Let Go Of?
Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time / Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost A Readings: Isaiah 5: 1-7; Psalm 80; Philippians 4: 6-9 (RM) or 3:4b-14 (RCL); Matthew 21: 33-43…
Humility, Freedom and the Mind of Christ
Reflection for the Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time A / Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Ezekiel 18: 25-28 (RM) or 18:1-4, 25-32 (RCL); Psalm 25; Philippians 2: 1-11 (RM) or…
Finding Christ in the Storm
Reflection for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 1 Kings 19: 9a, 11-13a (RM) or 9-18 (RCL); Psalm 85; Romans 9: 1-5 (RM) or…
The Kin-dom of God: Imagining a Hope Beyond Measure
Reflection for he Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A Readings: 1 Kings 3: 5, 7-12; Psalm 119; Romans 8: 28-30; Matthew 13: 44-52. If you were trying to inspire your…
Among the Wheat and the Weeds
Reflection for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Wisdom 12: 13, 16-19 (RM); Psalm 86; Romans 8: 26-27 (RM) or 12-25 (RCL); Matthew 13:…
Seeds of Hope
Reflection for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A / Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Readings: Isaiah 55: 10-11 (RM) or 10-13 (RCL); Psalm 65; Romans 8: 18-23 (RM) or 1-11…
A Cup of Water, A Heart of Hope
Reflection for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Readings: 2 Kings 4: 8-11, 14-16a (RM) or Jeremiah 28: 5-9 (RCL); Psalm 89 (RM) Romans 6:…