Author: Mission Societies

The Commemoration of the Lord’s Entrance into JerusalemLk 19:28-40 At the MassIs 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 COMMENTARY The Heart of Divine Mission Palm Sunday is also called Passion [...]

Is 43:16-21; Ps 126; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 COMMENTARY Misera et Misericordia “The Misery and Mercy”With this fifth Sunday of Lent, we are approaching the final phase of the Lenten Journey. It is actually the [...]

Jos 5:9a,10-12; Ps 34; 2Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3,11-32 COMMENTARY The Return to the Joy of the Father “The Fourth Sunday of Lent is suffused with light, a light reflected on this ‘Laetare Sunday’ [‘Rejoice!’] by vestments [...]

Ex 3:1-8a,13-15; Ps 103; 1Cor 10:1-6,10-12; Lk 13:1-9 COMMENTARY Called to ConversionOn this Sunday we are approaching the middle of Lent and therefore also the center of the whole Lenten [...]

Gn 15:5-12,17-18; Ps 27; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28b-36 COMMENTARY Transfigured on the Way“The Gospel on the second Sunday of Lent is always the account of the Transfiguration” says theHomiletic Directory (no. 64) which further explains authoritatively: “The Transfiguration holds an [...]

Dt 26:4-10; Ps 91; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13 COMMENTARY Toward a Missionary Christian Conversion Time flies and we arrive at a new Lent of our life. It is always the “venerable and sacred time,” as the Church reminds us [...]

Sir 27:4-7; Ps 92; 1Cor 15:54-58; Lk 6:39-45 COMMENTARY The Wisdom of HeartJesus’ teaching in today’s Gospel follows that of last Sunday, and we are always within his “Discourse on [...]

1Sm 26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; Ps 103; 1Cor 15:45-49; Lk 6:27-38 COMMENTARY Concrete love and mercyThis Sunday’s Gospel is the continuation of Jesus’ “Discourse on the Plain” which began with the Beatitudes we [...]

Jer 17:5-8; Ps 1; 1Cor 15:12,16-20; Lk 6:17,20-26 COMMENTARY The People blessed and loved by the LordContinuing our missionary journey with the Word of God on the Sundays of Ordinary [...]