September 7, 2025, the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s Gospel reading presents a much more difficult challenge to anyone who wished to follow after Jesus. A disciple must hate “father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life” (Lk 14:26). How can anyone understand these unreasonable demands?
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The Kingdom’s Value System Revisited
August 31, 2025, the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Gospel compares two guests discerning their seat arrangement at a wedding banquet. Choose wisely.
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How many paths are there to salvation?
August 24, 2025, the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus’ response to the question—“Lord, will only a few people be saved?”—remains puzzling.
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Learning to fall as spiritual discipline
August 17, 2025, the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: There remains a glimpse of hope, according to this Sunday’s psalm, for those who wait in the Lord. But the readings also provide a meditation on lament before the realization of renewal or resurrection.
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Faith can be measured by the standard of smallness
August 10, 2025, the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings offer three different lenses to examine what is perhaps best left mysterious: how faith works within one’s tradition.
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Leaving happiness behind to find happiness
August 3, 2025, the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Gospels do not ask questions about happiness and purpose the way some of Wisdom literature does; they present the concerns of God for the world.
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Inquire about important matters, again and again
July 27, 2025, the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s readings present themes of persistence and inquiry.
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Hospitality as a Christian virtue
July 20, 2025, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s Gospel passage introduces a key element: the central role of hospitality.
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A pressing question for today: Who am I?
July 13, 2025, the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The readings this Sunday demonstrate that love of God goes hand in hand with care for one’s neighbor.
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Bragging Rights: The Cross of Christ
July 6, 2025, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Gently but firmly correcting their perception of “success,” Jesus invites them to remember what is truly important.