Blog Post by William Manaker S.J.
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26 August 2021
26 August 2021 Thursday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel reading (Matt 24:42-51) marks a shift in our Lord’s speeches ...
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25 August 2021
25 August 2021 Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel reading (Matt 23:27-32) is a continuation of Jesus’ words ...
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24 August 2021
24 August 2021 Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Catholics often like to complain about the state of the Church. We lament the lukewarmness ...
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23 August 2021
23 August 2021 Monday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time The pharisaism which Jesus condemns in today’s Gospel (Matt 23:13-22) is a ...
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22 August 2021
22 August 2021 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time In the first reading from today’s Mass (Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b), Joshua challenges the ...
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19 June 2021
19 June 2021 Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Our Christian faith is full of paradoxes. We confess that God is both three and ...
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19 June 2021
19 June 2021 Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Our Christian faith is full of paradoxes. We confess that God is both three and ...
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18 June 2021
18 June 2021 Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time As Jesus points out in today’s Gospel (Matt 6:19-23), a person’s treasure reveals a ...
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17 June 2021
17 June 2021 Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time As an English teacher, I ask my sophomore students to read Shakespeare’s Othello, ...
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16 June 2021
16 June 2021 Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Generosity is not easy to sustain. In my work as a teacher, I have felt the limits ...
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