Month: January 2016
Monday-4th Week-Ord. Time [II]
Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time [II]
II Samuel 15:13-14,30; 16:5-13 + Mark 5:1-20
February 1, 2016
“…they began to beg [Jesus] to leave their district.” Continue reading
The 4th Sunday in Ord. Time [C]-REFLECTION
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time [C]
Jer 1:4-5,17-19 + 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 + Lk 4:21-30
January 31, 2016
“…before you were born I dedicated you…” Continue reading
Saturday – 3rd Week in Ord. Time [II]
Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time [II]
II Samuel 12:1-7,10-17 + Mark 4:35-41
January 30, 2016
“The wind ceased and there was great calm.” Continue reading
Friday – 3rd Week in Ord. Time [II]
Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time [II]
II Samuel 11:1-4,5-10,13-17 + Mark 4:26-34
January 29, 2016
“ ‘This is how it is with the Kingdom of God….’ ” Continue reading
St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor Communis
St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
II Samuel 7:18-19,24-29 + Mark 4:21-25
January 28, 2016
“ ‘The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you….’ ” Continue reading
Wednesday – 3rd Week in Ord. Time [II]
Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time [II]
II Samuel 7:4-17 + Mark 4:1-20
January 27, 2016
“ ‘Do you not understand this parable?’ ” Continue reading
Sts. Timothy & Titus, Bishops
Saints Timothy & Titus, Bishops
2 Timothy 1:1-8 + Mark 3:22:30
January 26, 2016
“…I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.” Continue reading
The 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time [C] HOMILY
The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time [C]
Neh 8:2-4,5-6,8-10 + 1 Cor 12:12-30 + Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21
January 24, 2016
Jesus “went according to His custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day.”
When you’re little, your imagination helps you fill in the gaps about all the things in the world that you don’t understand. When I was a boy, I did not think very much about becoming a priest. I never seriously thought about being a priest until my freshman year of college when I was at K-State. Maybe one reason that I didn’t think much about entering the seminary when I was little was because of what my imagination told me that the seminary must be like. For whatever reason, I thought that life in the seminary consisted chiefly of two things: kneeling on wooden kneelers for hours on end, and memorizing all the names of the popes. I think it was when I learned that there were over two hundred sixty popes that I gave up thinking about the seminary. Continue reading