Readings: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9 • Mk 1:7-11 Why be a Catholic? […]
On the Readings for Sunday, December 17, 2017, the Third Sunday of Advent […]
Readings: • Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 85:9-10-11-12, 13-14 • 2 Pt 3:8-14 • Mk 1:1-8 One of the great mysteries we experience constantly and live with every second—quite literally—is the mystery of time. We […]
On the Readings for Sunday, June 24, 2012, The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist […]
Readings: • Is 49:3, 5-6 • Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 • 1 Cor 1:1-3 • Jn 1:29-34 Taken as a whole, this Sunday’s readings can, I think, be summarized in a single sentence: […]
Readings: • Is 35:1-6a, 10 • Ps 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 • Jas 5:7-10 • Mt 11:2-11 First, awaken. Then repent. Now rejoice. Those have been the central themes during these three Sundays of Advent. On […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached on the Second Sunday of Advent (December 4, 2022), at Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter). We have completed one-fourth of our […]
Readings: • Isa 11:1-10 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 • Rom 15:4-9 • Mt 3:1-12 If you saw John the Baptist preaching on a street corner, what might you think of him? He would […]
Readings: • Zep 3:14-18a • Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 • Phil 4:4-7 • Lk 3:10-18 “Great joy,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “has in it the sense of immortality…” Joy, like love, hope, and goodness, cannot […]
In 1987, when I was ten years-old and a devotee of the World Wrestling Federation, I saw an episode of the WWF talk show, Piper’s Pit, hosted by the Scottish wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. On […]
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