The family is the original cell of social life. [CCC]| - - - - - - - - - -|I’ve been thinking a lot about families lately, I suppose it’s because I find myself partially immersed in the milieu I’d experienced 30 or 35 ...

1 Kings 19:16b,19-21; Ps 16:1-2,5-11; Gal 5:1,13-18; Lk 9:51-62 (cycle C)|————|Jason had just hurried home from work and as he finished changing his clothes he looked at the clock. It was almost eight, time to head to the ...

Year C: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113:1-2,4-6,7-8; 1 Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 "For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children ...

Year C: Seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time. Genesis 18:20-32; Psalm 138; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13

Year C: August 29, 2010 Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 3:17-18,20,28-29; Psalm 68:4-5,6-7,10-11; Hebrews 12:18-19,22-24a; Luke 14:1,7-14 "For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Year C: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph 1 Samuel 1:20-22,24-28, Luke 2:41-52

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Yr C) Jeremiah 1:4-5,17-19; Psalm 71; 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13; Luke 14:21-30 Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more ...

Year C: Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 15:5-12,17-18; Psalm 27:1, 7-8,8-9,13-14; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 9:28b-36

Year A: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27

Homily, 1 January 2012. Mary, Mother of God. Numbers 6:22-27; Galations 4:4-7; Luke 2:16-21 Today we acknowledge that Jesus is the Second Person of the Trinity and that Mary, as Jesus’ mother, was also the Mother of ...