(21st Ordinary Sunday: Joshua 24:1-18; Ephesians 5:21-32; John 6:60-69) Warning! This week’s readings will challenge all of us in different ways. The last time we encountered these readings (three years ago), the title of the reflection was Whom shall we Serve? Everything pointed to the obvious answer— we serve the Lord. For us,…
Saturday – August 21, 2021 – La Salette Association of Prayers Sunday – August 22, 2021 – For the Health of Jessica Kelley by Valerie Newton Monday – August 23, 2021 – Health & Healing of Robert Paul by Donna-Rae Grant Tuesday – August 24, 2021 – Loving Memory of…
Ark of the Covenant (Assumption: 1 Chron. 15:3-4,15-16 to 16:1-2; 1 Cor. 15:54-57; Luke 11:27-28. NOTE: These readings are for the Vigil Mass.) It was a great and festive day in Jerusalem! The Ark of the Covenant was coming home, as the first reading tells us, “to the place which…
Saturday – August 14, 2021 – La Salette Association of Prayers Sunday – August 15, 2021 – Celebration 40th Year of Life of Jessica Kelley by Valerie Newton Monday – August 16, 2021 – Repose of the Soul of Richard Smith by Wayne Vanasse Tuesday – August 17, 2021 –…
(19th Ordinary Sunday: 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; John 6:41-51) Eiljah was a powerful and successful prophet. It is strange, then, to hear him, in the first reading, praying for death and saying, “This is enough, O Lord!” Not many of us ask for death, but there are times when our…
Signs and Wonders (18th Ordinary Sunday: Exodus 16:2-15; Ephesians 4:17-24; John 6:24-35) In the three-year cycle of the Sunday Lectionary, we are currently in “Year B,” which highlights the Gospel of Mark on the Sundays in Ordinary Time. But there is always a four-week break, when the Church presents the “Bread of…
