Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
“… she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” (Mk. 12:44) Jesus had very unorthodox, even radical, ideas about economics! Open the Gospels, and there we ...
Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
“… you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mk: 12:31) Many years ago, when I was a 16-year-old high school sophomore, one kid in our class decided it was a great ...
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Master, I want to see.” Mk. 10:51 The journalist John Allen wrote about a dinner experience he had while covering a Synod of Bishops on Family Life that met in ...
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you …. Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at ...
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
“ … what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” Mk 10:9 Listen to these heart-rending words of a 43-year-old mother: “’Are you trying to tell me that ...
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off …. If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off … If your eye causes you to sin, pluck ...