Outside the box

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), November 10, 2013 – 2 Mac 7, 1-2. 9-14; 2 Thes 2, 16 – 3, 5; Lk 20, 27-38 What has not entered the human heart, God has revealed to us through the Spirit (1 Cor 2, 9. 10) Jesus was so rejected he ended up crucified.  Since no...

A children’s story

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), November 3, 2013 – Wis 11, 22 – 12, 2; 2 Thes 1, 11 – 2, 2; Lk 19, 1-10 Unless you turn and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18, 3) Zacchaeus, like a smart kid, runs and climbs a...

Right thing, wrong reason

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 27, 2013 – Sir 35, 12-14. 16-18; 2 Tim 4, 6-8. 16-18, 2; Lk 18, 9-14 When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites (Mt 6, 5) Says Pope Francis, “What is worrying is the risk of the ideologization of the Vetus Ordo, its...

Prayerful faith is not a drug

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 20, 2013 – Ex 17, 8-13; 2 Tim 3, 13 – 4, 2; Lk 18, 1-8 What counts is faith working through love (Gal 5, 6) After affirming that the littlest faith is unbelievably a match to the greatest challenge and that faith...

Preventing jihad

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 13, 2013 – 2 Kgs 5, 14-17; 2 Tim 2, 8-13; Lk 17, 11-19 I am grateful to him who has strengthened me …, I who am the foremost sinner (1 Tim 1, 12. 15) St. Vincent de Paul says that God makes use even of our sins for...