Wednesday, July 21, 2010 By Father Timothy Schehr Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:12-14; Luke 11:1-13 How do we think of God? One may think of God as a conductor, making beautiful music out of the stuff of creation. A child may think of God as an …

By Father Kyle Schnippel  “Um, Mom, this is the small one.”   Two years ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Rome with my parents.  They had never been, while I was making my fourth trip to the Eternal City.  I had a sense of the city, the scale, …

Thursday, July 8, 2010 By Father Kyle Schnippel “Um, Mom, this is the small one.” Two years ago, I had the opportunity to travel to Rome with my parents.  They had never been, while I was making my fourth trip to the Eternal City.  I had a sense of the …

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 By Father Timothy Schehr Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Deuteronomy 30:10-14; Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 10:25-37 Deuteronomy. Now that is a name to be taken seriously. Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Bible; it is also the final book of the Torah, the Law of Moses. …

Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Michael Daley After a long day of teaching, I returned home to an unexpectedly quiet house. This was surprising, given that my wife was out of town and our three kids were with a babysitter. A little alarmed, I looked around the house. Nearby I …

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 By Sister Betty J. Lillie, S.C. Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9: 51-62 The readings of this week continue last week’s idea about forming a whole new way of thinking about the Messiah and …

Thursday, June 17, 2010 By Father Earl Fernandes At the kickoff for the Athenaeum’s capital campaign, a benefactor said, “Father, we enjoyed your last article (‘Magisterium: Always Right?’) in The Catholic Telegraph. I only have one question: What’s the magisterium?” The Catechism of the Catholic Church (85) states: “The task …

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 By Sister Betty J. Lillie, S.C. Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Zechariah 12:10-11, 13:1; Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9; Galatians 3:26-29; Luke 9:18-24 Among this week’s readings our Gospel passage gives us a focus to important questions that surfaced in the minds of Jesus’ followers. When a person …

Thursday, June 10, 2010 By Jeanne Hunt In the month of June every parish church will have one or two weddings each Saturday. The bride will be radiant. The groom will be handsome and strong in his determined resolve to wed.  Everyone will gather around them, resolving to support them …

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 By Sister Betty J. Lillie, S.C. Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: 2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13; Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11; Galatians 2:16, 19-21; Luke 7:36-8:3. During this period of Ordinary Time our liturgical readings remind us of some of the important teachings of our faith tradition. …