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Life, Death, and Immortality (13th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings Of all the books in the Old Testament, the book of Wisdom has the most extended discussion of the nature of life, death, and the afterlife. It teaches that death was not...Posted: Jun-26-2024 -
God and Evil (12th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s readings The book of Job is of great interest to readers who are interested to know what the Bible has to say about the Problem of Evil. In chapters 38-41, we see...Posted: Jun-20-2024
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The Plant (11th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The Book of Ezekiel chronicles the very end of the First Temple period, just before the Judean monarchy was brought to an end by Babylon. Many of Ezekiel’s prophecies are...Posted: Jun-11-2024
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The First Gospel (10th Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The Fall of humanity was an occasion of great sorrow, for from it come all the evils of this world. Wars, oppressions, and death itself, all come to us because of that...Posted: Jun-06-2024
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The Blood of the Covenant (Corpus Christi Sunday)Click here for this Sunday’s Old Testament readings After their escape from Egypt, the second half of Exodus recounts how God established the Mosaic Covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai. The Old Testament reading concludes a section where...Posted: May-30-2024
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The One True God (Trinity Sunday)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings Our Old Testament reading comes from the historical section of the book of Deuteronomy, where Moses recounts to the people of Israel how God led their fathers out of Egypt in the...Posted: May-24-2024
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From Babel to Pentecost (Pentecost Sunday)Click here for the Saturday vigil reading Click here for the Sunday reading Those who attend both the Saturday evening and Sunday Masses during Pentecost may notice that the first reading is different in both. On Saturday evening, the story...Posted: May-14-2024
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Ascended (Feast of the Ascension)Click here for the Sunday Readings Forty days after the Resurrection, we celebrate Christ’s ascension into Heaven. Before He died, Christ told His disciples in advance that He would ascend up into Heaven, and from there send the...Posted: May-07-2024
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Gospel for all Nations (Sixth Sunday of Easter)Click here for this Sunday’s readings This passage of Acts marks the first major wave of conversion of Gentiles to the Christian faith. Prior to meeting with Cornelius, St. Peter had a vision wherein several non-kosher animals...Posted: May-04-2024
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Paul the Preacher (5th Sunday of Easter)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings This week’s Acts reading comes at the heels of St. Paul’s conversion, which is describe for us in Acts 9:1-20. In verses 21-25, we see...Posted: Apr-24-2024
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The Cornerstone (4th Sunday of Easter)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings This week’s reading from Acts continues the previous reading wherein Sts. Peter and John healed the lame beggar at the temple, on which occasion they declared the Gospel of Jesus...Posted: Apr-17-2024
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A Call to Repentance (3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings St. Peter’s sermon in Acts 3 comes right after his healing of the lame beggar in front of the Jerusalem temple gate. He declared that the man was healed by...Posted: Apr-09-2024
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All Things in Common (2nd Sunday of Easter)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The reading from Acts gives us a window into the social life of the early church. Christians were known for taking care of the needy among them, making sure that no one...Posted: Apr-04-2024
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Witnesses of the Lord (1st Sunday of Easter)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings During the Easter Season, the first reading for Sundays is taken from the book of Acts rather than the Old Testament. Acts chronicles the life of the early church, and how Christianity...Posted: Mar-27-2024
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The Vindication of the Servant (Palm Sunday)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings This reading is the third of four Servant Songs that are in the book of Isaiah (the other three are in 42:1-7, 49:1-12, and 52:13-53:12...Posted: Mar-20-2024
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The New Covenant (5th Sunday of Lent)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings In past readings, we were introduced to a succession of covenants that God made with important individuals, after whom each covenant was named. These included the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, the...Posted: Mar-13-2024
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Exile and Return (4th Sunday of Lent)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings The history of the divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah is a sad tale of how God’s chosen people broke the Covenant that God made with them at Mt. Sinai...Posted: Mar-04-2024
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The Covenant Code (3rd Sunday of Lent)Click here for this Sunday’s readings When God rescued Israel out of slavery in Egypt, He brought them to Mt. Sinai, where He committed Himself in a covenant to constitute them as His chosen people on earth. In...Posted: Feb-27-2024
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The Binding of Isaac (2nd Sunday of Lent)Click here for this Sunday’s readings The binding of Isaac is one of the most significant events in the Bible’s redemptive history. It is pivotal because it marks Abraham’s faithfulness to God’s...Posted: Feb-20-2024
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The Noahic Covenant (1st Sunday of Lent)Click here for this Sunday’s Readings In the aftermath of the Flood story in Genesis, God establishes a covenant with Noah. This covenant is one of the first of several covenants that God “cuts” with humans...Posted: Feb-14-2024
