27 July 2014
27 July 2014 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readers of this column will grant this week’s writer the indulgence of examining the readings ...
26 July 2014
26 July 2014 Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary “Blessed they who dwell in your house!” exults the ...
25 July 2014
25 July 2014 Feast of Saint James, Apostle I recall a dark period of my life, when I sought to serve God yet felt that I was failing. A priest ...
24 July 2014
24 July 2014 Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time When we are young and in love with somebody or something, we are usually zealous, ...
23 July 2014
23 July 2014 Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Pope Benedict XVI was fond of calling the psalms a “school of prayer.” Indeed, we ...
22 July 2014
22 July 2014 Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene Today the Church celebrates St. Mary Magdalene. She had a deep relationship with Jesus. She knew ...
21 July 2014
21 July 2014 Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time God is always greater. In Latin: Deus Semper Maior. Jesus today makes clear that ...
20 July 2014
20 July 2014 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time In today’s Gospel, weeds have infested a man’s garden. That man states matter-of-factly, “An ...
19 July 2014
19 July 2014 Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time The first reading from Micah speaks of “those who plan iniquity.” Whatever they desire, ...
18 July 2014
18 July 2014 Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time At two points in the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius says that meditation on death may ...