26 August 2024
Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time The criticism that Jesus levies at the scribes and Pharisees in the Gospel today is ...
25 August 2024
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time In a subtle yet powerful manner, this Sunday’s Gospel highlights and affirms the essential nature of ...
24 August 2024
Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Today the Church celebrates and remembers the life of St. Bartholomew, known also, as seen in our Gospel, ...
23 August 2024
Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time The Pharisees, seeing Jesus humble the Sadducees, think they can corner Him. In asking which ...
22 August 2024
Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary When we were children and heard tales of kings and queens, we understood the roles in a ...
21 August 2024
Memorial of Saint Pius X, Pope As with the rich young man, so with our parable today: the reward of the Christian life, the one thing for which ...
20 August 2024
Memorial of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church Why is it so difficult—not impossible!—for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of ...
19 August 2024
Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time In this familiar Gospel tale we often overlook a crucial detail: notice that when Jesus tells the ...
18 August 2024
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time When God says in the beginning, “Let there be light,” there is light. When Jesus says to a leper, “Be ...
17 August 2024
Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time “Create a clean heart in me, O God,” says today’s Psalm. It calls to mind the Beatitude, ...