Feast of the Transfiguration
“Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother, John, and led them up a high mountain …. And he was transfigured before them.” Mt. 17:1-2 Astonishing things happen on mountain tops. ...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has ...
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?” Mt. 13:27 “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Many of us ...
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“The seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.” Mt. 13:23 ...
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Come to me all you who are labored and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Mt. 11:28 Early in the 1960’s, during my college years, The Kingston Trio singing ...
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.” Mt. 10:37 A long time ago, I heard a sermon in which the priest made a peculiar, ...