The Word

August 20, 2023, Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings highlight the tension between inclusivity and exclusivity, but the readings also trend in one hopeful direction upon closer inspection.

August 13, 2023, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sunday’s readings highlight two servants of the Lord from different eras. One runs away from his ministry as prophet, while the other sinks before his own identity. But when each one calls for help God listens. 

August 6, 2023, Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: The power of this scene is not the vision of Jesus transfigured, but the healing touch Jesus offers to his beloved disciples.

July 30, 2023, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings provide a reflection on the risk involved in building a life on shifting and contingent foundations.

July 23, 2023, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sunday’s readings suggest that the kingdom of heaven relies entirely on God’s initiative. The manner in which we respond to this reality reveals how much we trust in this God who sustains our repentance and prayer.

July 16, 2023, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: When the Bible evokes resilience, it is tied to the virtue of long-suffering and the ability to remain faithful to a covenant with God over a long period of time.

July 9, 2023, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings challenge readers to make Jesus’ prayer their own.

July 2, 2023, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Prophets communicate God’s wisdom, and display their own skill in creative interpretations of the Word of God.   

June 22, 2023, Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God is close to those who struggle for a different world and one might even find a sense of beauty in this awareness. 

June 18, 2023, Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus and the first disciples let compassion pierce their own hearts and reaped great abundance. His disciples today must do the same.