So, the Easter Season is over. Now what? I mean it kind of feels like a letdown, right? You have all these great celebrations of the liturgical year in Advent and Christmas and Lent and Easter, and then it’s just plain old Ordinary Time.’ Blah. But wait a second. That’s not right. Ordinary Time isn’t […]
The Dignity of Life In the Gospel this week, it is easy to see God’s law only as a collection of ‘don’t’s but Jesus is its real purpose over the next few weeks. He takes a selection of the commandments starting with “You shall not kill” and turns them into a positive direction. Asking us
On the First Sunday of Advent each year we begin a new cycle in the life of the Church. The year begins with that beautiful Season of waiting and is followed by the joy of the Nativity and the wonder of the Epiphany. We don’t dwell on the wonder and beauty of the Infant King,
The Year of Matthew We come to Church on a Sunday for many reasons – to be with others in our community of faith, to pray for our needs and the needs of the world, and of course to receive Christ in the Sacrament and meet him in the Scriptures. For the readings, we follow
