Seventeenth Sunday – C
Every people have heroes who have given their lives for the freedom and peace of their community. Their sacrifices, although in the past, live on…
Sixteenth Sunday – C
In addition to the physical pain that suffering brings, suffering is a nuisance thatblocks us from what we really want to do for ourselves, our…
Fifteenth Sunday – C
Moses, in the Book of Deuteronomy, tells us to “return to the Lord your God withall your heart and all your soul” (Dt 30:10). Moses…
Fourteenth Sunday
Being nailed to a cross was not only a torturous form of execution but a slow andhumiliating one, during which the onlookers watched dying person’s…
Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul
Why, contrary to the Church’s practice, do we celebrate two saints on a Sunday, whichis the “Lord’s Day”? In celebrating this feast, the Church recalls…
Corpus Christi – C
Paul declares that he heard from the “Lord” Himself what Jesus did at His last supper (1Cor 11:23). Scholars place Jesus’ death in the year…
Trinity Sunday
When we say that the Trinity is a “mystery,” we mean that the Trinity is inexhaustiblydeeper than we can ever comprehend. However, “mystery” doesn’t mean…
Pentecost Sunday – Year C
The passage of the Letter to the Romans, used on Pentecost Sunday, year C, Romans8:8-17, begins, “You are not in the flesh, you are in…
Ascension – C
Did Jesus have joy when He returned to the Father with His glorified humanity? St.Thomas Aquinas thinks He did: “He had a certain kind of…
Sixth Sunday of Easter – C
Today’s Gospel, John 14:23-29 begins: “Anyone who loves me will be true to My Word.”In his Commentary on the Gospel of John, St. Thomas Aquinas…