Reading I: Ezekiel 16:1-15,63 or Ezekiel 16:59-63
Responsorial Psalm: Isaiah 12:2-3,4bcd, 5-6
Gospel Reading: Matthew 19:3-12

The question about divorce is relevant. People tend to have vague notions about marriage, love, commitment and family, that …

Reading I:  Ezekiel 12:1-12
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 78
Gospel Reading: Matthew 18:21-19:1

The question of Peter (Matthew 18:21-19:1) regarding forgiveness continues the one from the previous section about the brother who offends (Matthew 18:15-20). The …

Readings:

Reading 1:  Ezekiel 1:2-5.24-28c
Resp. Ps.:  Psalm 148:1-2.11-12,13,14
Gospel   :  Matthew 17:22-27

The exchange between Peter and Jesus may probably have come from a moment in history when the Matthaean community was beginning to …

Reading I: 2 Kings 2:1.6-14
Resp. Psalm: Psalm 31
Gospel Reading: Matthew 6:1-6.16-18

In Matthew 6:1-6.16-18 Jesus tells his listeners how to have a spirituality that is higher than that of the Pharisees …

Reading I: 1 Kings 21:17-29
Responsorial Psalm : Psalm 51
Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:43-48

1 Kings 21:17-29 is the second part of the Naboth incident. Here, Elijah is sent to confront Ahab of his sin …

Reading I: 1 Kings 18:41-46
Resp. Psalm: Psalm 65
Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:20-26

After Elijah’s victory over the prophets of Baal, rain comes to Israel from the sea. The point of the narrative is …

Reading I: 1 Kings 18:20-39
Resp. Psalm: Psalm 16
Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:17-19

The confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal is not only a religious confrontation.  Baalism was after all the official religion …

Reading I: 1 Kings 17:7-16
Resp. Psalm: Psalm 4
Gospel Reading: Matthew 5:13-16

 
Elijah’s episode with the widow of Zarephath is remembered in the gospels and linked to the Jesus’ work in Nazareth.  Jesus …

Reading I: Zephaniah 3:14-18a or Romans 12:9-16
Resp. Psalm: Isaiah 12
Gospel Reading: Luke 1:39-56

The Feast of the Visitation of Mary started out as a devotion of the Franciscans that became part of …

This year, we read Luke’s account of Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth twice in succession.  We read the account as the gospel reading for the fourth Sunday of Advent (Year C).  But it is also …