Short-term or long-term?

Fourth Sunday of Advent (A), December 22, 2013 – Is 7, 10-14; Rom 1, 1-7; Mt 1, 18-24 A sign for you:  an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger (Lk 2, 12) God urges us to ask for a sign, even one that is extraordinary.  But we do not like signs too...

Yes and no

Third Sunday of Advent (A), December 15, 2013 – Is 35, 1-6a. 10; Jas 5, 7-10; Mt 11, 1-11 Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no (Jas 5, 12) Jesus and his co-workers attend to the needs of people of all kinds.  This proves that Isaiah’s prophecy about the messianic...

The news is good

Second Sunday of Advent (A), December 8, 2013 – Is 11, 1-10; Rom 15, 4-9; Mt 3, 1-12 Put on the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 13, 14) The kingdom of God is at hand.  And since no one can endure the day of the Lord’s coming, we have to repent. We affirm the royal presence “in...

Vincentian vigilance

First Sunday of Advent (A), December 1, 2013 – Is 2, 1-5; Rom 13, 11-14; Mt 24, 37-44 Gird your loins and light your lamps (Lk 12, 35) If we remember, in whatever we do, the end of our life, we will never sin (Sir 7, 36).  The future will not catch us off guard if we...

Key to the kingdom

Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (C), November 24, 2013 – 2 Sam 5, 1-3; Col 1, 12-20; Lk 23, 35-43 Did not God choose those who are poor to be heirs of the kingdom? (Jas 2, 5) The inscription announces Jesus the king of the...
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