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November 2020

November 28, 2020

You Better Watch Out. I’m Telling You Why.

Jesus Christ is coming to town. Watch! For the First Sunday of Advent....

November 26, 2020

The Puritan Pilgrims Celebrated “Thanksgiving” Only Once

The Mayflower Pilgrims, as Puritan Calvinists, saw yearly festivals as a corrupt Catholic usage,...

November 24, 2020

Break Down, Build up, Cast Stones Away, Gather Stones Together

Jesus said, “All that you see here— the days will come when there will...

November 21, 2020

EX NIHILO: Created Out of Nothing, Receiving God’s All

Created ex nihilo, “out of nothing,” we could not start poorer than that. ...

November 14, 2020

The Glory in the Ugliness of God Settling Accounts

God as an investor settling accounts with this trustees? Matthew 25:14-30 for the...

November 13, 2020

In Which Year of the Lord Will He Return?

Anno Domini, “In the Year of the Lord.” Luke 17:26-37 for Friday of...

November 08, 2020

The Wise Make Ready to Rejoice

The foolish rejoice without making ready. Matthew 25:1-13 for the Thirty-Second Sunday in...

November 03, 2020

Wanted: The Spiritually Poor, Crippled, Blind and Lame. R.S.V.P.

God invites you, because spiritually you are poor, crippled, blind and lame. R.S.V.P. Luke...

November 02, 2020

The Great Multitude of All Souls

All souls: a great multitude which no one could number, from every nation, from all...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Holy, Holy Kith and Kin

We are members of the Holy Family. Revelation 7:2-4,9-14, 1 John 3:1-3 and Matthew...

October 26, 2020

The Devout Jewish Holy Man Who Is God

The Latin of the Roman Mass calls the first Jewish man, Abraham, our Patriarch,...

October 24, 2020

Anyone Want to Volunteer Unto Death?

Volunteer, anyone? Matthew 22:34-40 for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Today’s...

October 22, 2020

Fanatic, Fire, Baptism and Division

Luke 12:49-53 for Thursday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time There is...

October 17, 2020

The Strange Politics of God

For the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Isaiah 45:1,4-6; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b; Matthew 22:15-21....

October 16, 2020

God Is Into Your Hair

Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. ...

October 13, 2020

Priests Spewing Racism Right at My Face

Racism from Catholic priests? Yes! Catholic priests perpetrated the three most “right-into-my-personal-face” experiences of...

October 10, 2020

The “Wedding Garment” Is Not About New Clothes to Wear, but New Ways of Being

Matthew 22:1-14 for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. The King’s invitation to...

October 10, 2020

Is She “Blessed” or Not?

Luke 11:27-28 for Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. While Jesus...

October 03, 2020

Fresh Figs for God, Even When It’s Not Fig Season?

Matthew 21:33-43 for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. In today’s Gospel Christ again...

September 2020

September 26, 2020

Orthodox Lip Service Versus Repentant Disobedience

For the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: A Reading from the Holy Gospel According...

September 14, 2020

All Is Upside Down and Backwards

Numbers 21:4-9, Philippians 2:6-11 and John 3:13-17 for the Feast of the Exaltation of...

September 05, 2020

Jesus, Remember Me When You Come Into Your Kingdom

Matthew 18:15-20 for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. What is it to...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Building the Church on Revelation and Failure, Not on Opinion and Success

Matthew 16:13-20 for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time This day in the Gospel was...

August 14, 2020

The Song of Mary’s Fulfillment and Ours

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6a, 10ab. 1 Corinthians 15:20-27....

August 01, 2020

Breaking Our Hopes Into Greater Ones

Matthew 14:13-21 for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time John the Baptist, a...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

I Am the Wheat of Christ

Matthew 13:24-43 for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Inside each of...

July 04, 2020

One Nation Under God? Maybe Not. There Will Be a Test.

Truer Than the Red, White and Blue “When the Son of man comes in...

June 2020

June 27, 2020

The Cross of Serving Cold Water to Little Ones

Carrying a Cross by Carrying a Cup. On the Readings at Mass on the...

June 13, 2020

“The Body and Blood of Christ” and “His Racist Priests”

This single post contains two separate articles: “The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Body, Spirit-Breath, Forgiveness of Sins

Newly arisen from the dead, Christ gave us his body and his breath, which is...