Sunday, July 2, is the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a; Psalm 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19; Romans 6:3-4, 8-11; Matthew 10:37-42. In today’s Gospel, the Lord gives four ...
Last Sunday we completed the Christmas season with the Feast of the Epiphany. Today we are starting again to review what we call the Ordinary Time of the year, 34 Sundays that make up that Ordinary ...
I think we can gather from our listening to the Scriptures this morning that the message today is about being a disciple of Jesus -- our call to follow him -- and maybe some of us are somewhat like ...
Luke 14:26 (RSV) If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. The same ...
Find today’s readings here. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side. There’s an incredibly tender—even intimate—moment in today’s Gospel. I must have read it ...
James Tissot, "The Appearance of Christ at the Cenacle," 1886-1894. (Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns by James Keenan, S.J., on contemporary issues in moral ...
Mary Magdalene who, despite popular culture, was not a prostitute, a noblewoman named Joanna and a healer called Salome were among his close circle. And Joanna, who had been married to an official of ...
To overlook the women in the Gospels, in all their diverse capabilities and contributions, is to overlook a necessary part of the story of Jesus. (sedmak / iStock / Getty Images) All four Gospels ...
Nobody knows for sure just how long Jesus' ministry, teaching and travelling throughout the Holy Land, lasted. Some say three years, others as little as one. That Christianity grew, after such a brief ...
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