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My homily for the Third Sunday of Easter. Readings for the day are: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 Psalm 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 1 John 2:1-5 Luke 24:35-48 During the Easter Season our readings give us...
Catholic Social Teaching for Our World Today
My homily for the Third Sunday of Easter. Readings for the day are: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 Psalm 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 1 John 2:1-5 Luke 24:35-48 During the Easter Season our readings give us...
Voyage Comics, a small Catholic publisher, has just come out with a new collection of essays on Christian Truth in the Spider-Verse. Three of my essays are included. Two I had previously written for...
I didn’t preach this weekend, but in Homiletics class last year I did write a homily for this weekend’s readings. Exodus 17: 3-7 Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8 John 4: 5-42 Do we think of...
Sunday’s Readings: Solemnity of Christ the King 2 Samuel 5: 1-3 Psalm 122: 1-5 Colossians 1: 12-20 Luke 23: 35-43 It is interesting to me, this coincidence of our Church and State calendars in...
Sunday’s Readings: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Malachi 3: 19-20a Psalm 98: 5-6, 7-8, 9 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-12 Luke 21: 5-19 In looking at today’s Gospel reading, as the people are admiring their...
Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times by D L Mayfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars Occasionally people will ask me what to read to learn more about...
Saint Martin of Tours; Friday, November 11th Friday of the 32nd Week of Ordinary Time 2 John 4-9 Psalm 119: 1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18 Luke 17: 26-37 Jesus in the Gospel today...
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Sunday Readings: 2 Maccabees 7: 1-12, 9-14 Psalm 17: 1, 5-6, 8, 15 2 Thessalonians 2: 16-3: 5 Luke 20: 27-38 Our first reading today, from Maccabees, reminds us...
Apparently today is National Superheroes’ Day. I’m a big fan of superheroes generally, so it only seems appropriate to mark the occasion somehow. A couple years ago I wrote a series of articles: The...
This Sunday, November 22, we celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. At the end of our liturgical year, we remind ourselves that Christ’s Kingdom is not governed by the same ideals as the...
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