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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What difference have I made?
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
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Hope is the word for today
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
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Care for someone more deeply today
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Julian Navarro
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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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John the Baptist and radical hope
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist, by John Consolie
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My new appreciation for Augustinian spirituality
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Augustine, by Jackson Goodman
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From French aristocrat to Catholic hermit: St. Charles de Foucauld shows humility is the way to God
A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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Mothering in the Gospels
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Monica, by Michael J. O’Loughlin
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Reckoning with my shortcomings
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Alessandra Rose