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 […]
November 18, 2025
Like the inspirational 90-year-old Eleazar, we each make choices relative to our faith. Ours, thankfully, are not typically matters of life and death, but they are still consequential. If one is pro-life, some people will regard us with disgust. If one is pro-life and against the death penalty, the response can be “you are so […]
November 17, 2025
Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. We honor her life of profound charity and service to the poor and sick. Born a princess in 1207, she married and later became a widow, dedicating her life to serving the less fortunate after joining the Secular Franciscan Order, where she founded […]
November 16, 2025
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time As we move toward the end of the Church year, we are invited to reflect upon the apocalyptic end time. We are presented with terrifying images of earthquakes, famines, plagues, and nations rising against nations. As we look around our world today, we may be tempted to say the end […]