November 28, 2025
Today’s readings carry a sobering, apocalyptic tone. In the first reading, the prophet Daniel recounts a terrifying dream of four monstrous beasts—symbols of oppressive kingdoms that rise and fall before the coming of Christ. The footnotes in the Catholic Bible interpret these beasts as representing the turbulent history of the Jewish people before the birth […]
November 27, 2025
Thanksgiving Day (in the USA) My grandparents had seven children, and after the death of our grandpa, our grandmother opted to celebrate each of the major holidays with one of her children and their family. It was at our house that she came for Thanksgiving Day. That made Thanksgiving a very special event, one we […]
November 26, 2025
Jesus reminds us: know who you are! Perhaps we may proclaim our identity each time we pray. In our quiet place of contemplation, we may even say it (pray it) aloud: “I am a child of God. I am a loving follower of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, our Savior. I profess the great mystery of […]
November 25, 2025
In this final week of the year, Luke is at his best with this eschatological discourse. The images sound scary, yet when Luke speaks of the Temple, he has a much bigger message than the scary images. He starts his gospel text with the Temple and ends it in the Temple. Jesus and the Temple […]
November 24, 2025
Memorial of Saint Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs According to the 2025 Ordo, in Vietnam in the 18th and 19th Centuries, more than 130,000 Christians “suffered cruel martyrdom” (275) merely because they obeyed Our Lord’s Great Commission at the end of Matthew’s Gospel: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of […]
November 23, 2025
Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe When Buckingham Palace is entertaining, the setting of the table takes several days to accomplish. Detail and attention are given to the location of each place setting so that there is perfect alignment. The table is long, elaborately decorated, creating a scene fit for a […]
November 22, 2025
In the Gospel today, we find that death does not end the relationship God has with his people. When Moses stated that the Lord is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, he used present-tense language to show that God is the God of the living, a point highlighted […]
November 21, 2025
Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Today we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Mary into the Temple. There is no reference to this event in the canon of the Scriptures. It appears around the year 200 AD in the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James. The story relates how Joachim and Ann […]
November 20, 2025
We read in today’s Gospel that Jesus wept as he drew near to Jerusalem, viewing the unrest being experienced by the people. He lamented: ‘If this day you only knew what makes for peace…” Might not our Savior have the same reaction if he were to be near just about any major city in the […]
November 19, 2025
Jesus said to those standing by, “I tell you, to everyone who has will be given more; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken away. The poor servant in today’s gospel passage! He buried his master’s money for fear it would be somehow lost or stolen, and instead […]