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In today’s Gospel, Jesus interprets for his puzzled disciples the parable he told them about seeds falling on different kinds of ground. The seed that falls on rocky ground, Jesus says, is like people who have no roots and so give up when difficulty comes along. The seed fallen among…
Our Gospel today is the same Gospel for the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (June 15). “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart: for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” These words might bring protest…
Our first reading from 2Kings tells a story about “a woman of influence.” She persuades her husband to prepare a permanent place in their house where the prophet Elisa could stay during his preaching journeys. Jesus in our Gospel alludes to this story and asks his disciples and us to…
Perhaps, like me, you remember these lines from the old Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood … and I — I took the one less traveled by… .” Part of being a disciple of Jesus Christ is to be “countercultural.” We must not look at our…
What is God like? Today’s Scriptures fill in that picture for us. In our Hebrew Scripture, we have the image of a God who bears up his holy nation on eagle’s wings, making this people “a special possession,” dear to God. In Paul’s letter to the Romans, Christ acts when…
A year from now, about 70,000 U.S. Catholics will gather in Indianapolis for the 10th National Eucharistic Congress. The last one was 83 years ago; this one is July 17-21, 2024. Around the country, many dioceses are having their own local Eucharistic Congresses this summer. Why is all this happening?…
Sometimes I see a bumper sticker, or a little sign discreetly tucked away in a restaurant, with just “3-16.” It refers to John 3:16, the most loved and most motivating passage in Christian Scripture, which we hear in our Gospel on Trinity Sunday. God so loved the world that he…
Happy Birthday, Church! Today we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit which birthed a church. We can catch the spirit of this solemn feast day from the opening prayer of Mass: … sanctify your whole Church in every people and nation … and with the grace that was at…
“The eleven disciples went to Galilee … When they saw him, they worshipped, but they doubted.” The Gospel begins with these words (Matt 28:16-17). How can the disciples still be doubting, even as Jesus gives them their great commission, to “make disciples of all nations”? Well, for Matthew — and…
As we approach Pentecost, we listen this Sunday to a tender Jesus saying farewell to his disciples (John 14: 18-21). We’ll hear many words about the love bonds between the Lord and us, the intimacy of the God-and-us union. An advocate will be sent to be with us, to be…
