1Sm 16:1b,6-7,10-13a; Ps 23; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 COMMENTARY The mission of Christ-Light “The Fourth Sunday of Lent is suffused with light, a light reflected on this ‘Laetare Sunday’ [‘Rejoice!’] […]

Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95; Rom 5:1-2,5-8; Jn 4:5-42 COMMENTARY Christ’s “proto-mission” to the “foreign land” of Samaria This third Sunday of Lent of cycle year A is also called Samaritan […]

Gn 12:1-4a; Ps 33; 2Tim 1:8b-10; Mt 17:1-9 COMMENTARY From the Mount of Temptation to the Mount of Transfiguration “The Gospel on the second Sunday of Lent is always the […]

Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 COMMENTARY The Trials-Temptations in the Missionary Journey of Christ (and of His Disciples) With Ash Wednesday, we began the season of […]

Sir 15:15-20; Ps 119; 1Cor 2: 6-10; Mt 5:17-37 Commentary The light of the divine Law fulfilled by and in ChristToday’s Gospel continues and develops the talk of light that [...]

Is 58:7-10; Ps 112; 1Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 Commentary The vocation-mission of salt and lightThis Sunday’s gospel is brief but dense with meaning. It continues the proclamation of the beatitudes [...]

Zep 2:3;3:12-13; Ps 146; 1Cor 1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12a Commentary The Good News for God’s PoorAfter meditating last Sunday on Jesus’ first proclamation, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at [...]

Is 49:3,5-6; Ps 40; 1Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 Commentary By divine providence, the Liturgy of the Church this Sunday offers us, through the biblical readings and especially with the Gospel, [...]

Is 42:1-4,6-7 or Act 10:34-38; Ps 29; Mt 3:13-17 Commentary Baptism - gift and commitment to missionWe have arrived at the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, in which [...]

Is 60:1-6; Ps 72; Eph 3:2-3a,5-6; Mt 2:1-12 Commentary “Christmas, begun on December 25, reaches its climax today in Epiphany: Christ revealed to all the nations, as indicated in the Homiletic Directory published by [...]