2nd Sunday of Advent – December 7, 2025
It seems to me that Advent is a time of contrasts and reversals. Dark and light, repentance and hope, the lowly lifted up and the mighty cast down…
1st Sunday of Advent – November 30, 2025
Our first reading provides us with a perspective of what might be a particular way to prepare to meet Christ with “righteous deeds.”…
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Jesus is ever merciful, even while He is living through His own death. How are we going to respond to this understanding of who Christ is?
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – November 16, 2025
Reading the gospel of today makes me think of the Doomsday clock. We cannot put our heads in the sand and think that the conditions which the ‘doomsday clock’ represents are not real…
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica – November 9, 2025
Today we celebrate the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. It may strike as strange to celebrate a church or a building, but the reality is, we are not celebrating a structure of mortar and stone, but what it stands for.
Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed – November 2, 2025
This passage from Wisdom feels like a gentle, bracing hug from God.
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 26, 2025
Two people came to God’s house to pray, but only one found the hospitality of God’s love and mercy that was there. Which person do you want to be?
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 19, 2025
Moses needed help to hold up his arms in prayer to defeat the Amalekites. Attending church with other people helps us to do the same, that is, to persist in prayer even when we are tired or frustrated.
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 12, 2025
The healing of the ten lepers not only reveals the mercy and power of God, but unfortunately the lack of gratitude in our human condition.
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – October 5, 2025
With the help of the Holy Spirit, we all can participate in the work of creation, spreading the faith through the example of our lives.