NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Have you ever had one of those mornings when you were running a little behind schedule to get to work or school or an important appointment and you just grabbed a piece of toast or maybe skipped breakfast all-together? Then – well before lunch time, you felt the consequences of that decision. You noticed your energy level was dropping; it was hard to concentrate, to be productive, to complete the tasks at hand. And, if you were struggling with any particular matter, you might have felt like Elijah in today’s […]
JESUS, THE BREAD OF LIFE AND THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION
JESUS, THE BREAD OF LIFE
If you have been paying attention to the Sunday Gospels over the past two weeks, you might have noticed that they were taken from the Gospel of John. If you noticed that, you might have thought it odd since this year, when we are in Year B of the three year Liturgical cycle, the Sunday Gospel is ordinarily taken from the Gospel of Mark. Since Mark’s Gospel is rather short, however, we have more Sundays than we have Marcan pericopes so periodically throughout the […]
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life.” In last Sunday’s Gospel, we heard about Jesus feed a crowd of more than five thousand, and how the people, in their amazement, exclaimed, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” The prophet they were speaking about may have been Elisha who, as we heard in last week’s first reading, fed a crowd of 100 people with just 20 barley loaves and some fresh grain in the […]
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
“There was a famine in the land.” That’s how the section just before the passage we hear in today’s first reading begins and it’s important for us to know this as we listen to today’s first reading. At a time when travel was difficult and transcontinental transport was extremely expensive – you couldn’t go to your local ACME to pick up lamb chops from New Zealand or blueberries from Chile, or anything else you wanted for your next meal – everyone was dependent on the local rains to survive. […]
TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD AND CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA COLLECTION
TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD
Every year, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord on 6 August, 40 days before the Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross which is celebrated on 1 September. The account of the Transfiguration is also proclaimed on the Second Sunday of Lent every year – each year from the proper Liturgical Year – and for good reason. Just as our Lord was transfigured before the three disciples up on Mount Tabor to encourage them as they prepared to accompany […]
JOSH PARMET ON THE NATINAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
JOSH PARMET ON THE NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS:
MY PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Happy Sunday! As Msgr. Brouwers mentioned in last week’s Bulletin, I was blessed to be able to attend the 10th National Eucharistic Congress from July 17th-20th. I was with a group of eight seminarians from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who attended the event. After participating in a Mass at 5:00am on the 17th at St. Charles Seminary, we headed out in a van with one of our seminary priests to Indianapolis. From the moment we arrived at the convention center in […]