4th Sunday of the year – Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Today’s Gospel presents the Beatitudes.  I want to hone in on one of these: Blessed are…

4th Sunday of the year

It is told that when Mother Theresa was once cleaning the wounds of a leper, a…

4th Sunday of the year

TODAY WE BEGIN the Sermon on the Mount.  In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus is presented as the…

4th Sunday of the year – What does the human person seek but joy?

Introduction Do you want to be happy for a few hours? Get drunk. Do you want…

3rd Sunday of the year

In the birth of Jesus, God brought light into a dark world. Several of our New…

3rd Sunday of the year – Enlightened

Today’s readings begin with the passage from Isaiah that we proclaim at the Christmas Midnight Mass:…

3rd Sunday of the year – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2

I was listening to a local radio program recently as I was driving across town. The…

3rd Sunday of the year – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 1

Dear Preachers: We commonly make reference to Sunday’s three Scripture readings. But there are four. We…

3rd Sunday of the year

The story is told about a despondent man who complained to his mother: “I’ve stopped going…

3rd Sunday of the year

  THERE ARE THREE DISTINCT PARTS in today’s Gospel reading: a. Jesus, the light of the…