Sunday's Readings

SUNDAY’S READINGS | December 4, 2022 Isa. 11:1-10 Ps. 72:1-7, 18-19 Rom. 15:4-13 Matt. 3:1-12 John the Baptist adapts himself to the demands of a wild and arid place. He wears clothing of camel’s hair and girds himself with a leather belt; he eats locusts and wild honey. His prophetic voice comes out of the wilderness, a place of testing, a time of trial, far from the … [Read more...] about 2 Advent, Year A: Repentance and the Flame

SUNDAY’S READINGS | November 27, 2022 Isa. 2:1-5 Ps. 122 Rom. 13:11-14 Matt. 24:36-44 Advent is the beginning of the church year, so we find ourselves faced with the question of time. Today is a new beginning. All the works of our lives and all the days of our lives begin, continue, and end in God, from whom and by whom and in whom are all things. Advent asks this … [Read more...] about 1 Advent, Year A: Time Known and Unknown

SUNDAY’S READINGS | November 20, 2022 Jer. 23:1-6 • Cant. 16 or Ps. 46 • Col. 1:11-20 • Luke 23:33-43 In many depictions of the crucifixion, a Latin inscription is placed above the head of Jesus, abbreviated by four letters, INRI: Jesus Nazarenus, Jesus of Nazareth; Rex Iudaeorum, King of the Jews. He is indeed the King of the Jews, but not merely of the Jews. He is the … [Read more...] about Christ the King, Year C: He Reconciled All Things

SUNDAY’S READINGS | November 13, 2022 Isa. 65:17-25 or Mal. 4:1-2a Canticle 9 or Ps. 98 2 Thess. 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 The close of the church year dovetails into the coming year. Already, the theme of Advent shows itself, the announcement that the end of all things is soon to arrive, and something altogether new and marvelous and beyond all knowing is about to break in … [Read more...] about 23 Pentecost, Year C: Tribulation and Glory

SUNDAY’S READINGS | November 6, 2022 Hag. 1:15b-2:9 or Job 19:23-27a Ps. 145:1-5, 18-21 or Ps. 98 or Ps. 17:1-9 2 Thess. 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 At the beginning of the burial rite, an anthem is read or sung. Among several options, the most popular begins with the words of Jesus from the Gospel According to St. John: “I am the resurrection and the life.” The second … [Read more...] about 22 Pentecost, Year C: Children of the Resurrection

SUNDAY’S READINGS | October 30, 2022 Hab. 1:1-4, 2-4 or Isaiah 1:10-18 Ps. 119:137-144 or Ps. 32:1-8 2 Thess. 1:1-4, 11-12 Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus “was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature” (Luke 19:3). Seeing the crowd but not seeing over it, Zacchaeus devised another way. “He ran ahead and climbed a … [Read more...] about 21 Pentecost, Year C: Overcome the Crowd

SUNDAY’S READINGS | October 23, 2022 Joel 2:23-32 or Sir. 35:12-17 or Jer. 14:7-10 Ps. 65 or Ps. 84:1-6 2 Tim. 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 Jesus “told this parable to some who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt” (Luke 18:9). The well-known parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector may be heard as a straightforward … [Read more...] about 20 Pentecost, Year C: Righteousness and Humility

SUNDAY’S READINGS | October 16, 2022 Jer. 31:27-34 or Gen. 32:22-31 Ps. 119:97-104 or Ps. 121 2 Tim. 3:14-4:5 • Luke 18:1-8 “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory” (Ps. 115:1). We have lost our original likeness to God, and in that loss have wandered far from home, to a land of depravity and evil, pride and dissension. For that reason, we find that … [Read more...] about 19 Pentecost, Year C: A Life’s Work