5th Sunday of Easter – Year C (April 28th)
5th Sunday of Easter – Year C (April 28th) Readings: Acts 14:21b-27 Psalm 145:8-13b Revelation 21:1-5a John 13:31-35 Easter means that things look completely different. Easter does not mean that a...
View Article6th Sunday of Easter – Year C (May 5th)
6th Sunday of Easter – Year C (May 5th) Readings: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Psalm 67: 2-3, 5-6, 8 Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 John 14:23-29 How are we to solve our problems? We have been long enough now in the...
View Article7th Sunday – Year C (May 12th)
7th Sunday – Year C (May 12th) Readings: Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 97: 1-2, 6-7, 9 Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John 17:20-26 We are rushing towards the end of the Easter season now; Pentecost is just a...
View ArticlePentecost – Year C (May 19th)
Pentecost – Year C (May 19th) Readings: Acts 2:1-11 Psalm 104: 1, 24, 29-31, 34 Romans 8:8-17 John 14:15-16, 23-26 Next Sunday is the great feast of Pentecost, which ends our Easter celebrations, with...
View ArticleSolemnity of the Holy Trinity – Year C (May 26th)
Solemnity of the Holy Trinity – Year C (May 26th) Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31 Psalm 8:4-9 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 We are all agreed that there is only one God; but our fellow-monotheists, Jews and...
View ArticleCorpus Christ – Year C (June 2nd)
Corpus Christ – Year C (June 2nd) Readings: Genesis 14:18-20 Psalm 110: 1-4 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11-17 Next Sunday we celebrate the great solemnity of the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of...
View Article10th Sunday – Year C (June 9th)
10th Sunday – Year C (June 9th) Readings: 1 Kings 7:17-24 Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13 Galatians 1:11-19 Luke 7:11-17 One of the striking features of the God of Jews and Christians is that ours is a God who...
View Article11th Sunday – Year C (June 16th)
11th Sunday – Year C (June 16th) Readings: 2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13 Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11 Galatians 2:16, 19-21 Luke 7:36-8:3 One of the things that religion has to do for us is help us to cope with the...
View Article12th Sunday – Year C (June 23rd)
12th Sunday – Year C (June 23rd) Readings: Zechariah 12:10-11; 13:1 Psalm 63: 2, 4-6, 8-9 Galatians 3:26-29 Luke 9:18-24 God is different, does things differently from us. That is the unmistakable...
View Article13th Sunday – Year C (June 30th)
13th Sunday – Year C (June 30th) Readings: 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21 Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11 Galatians 5:1, 13-18 Luke 9:51-62 There is for each one of us a call from God; and we shall never be compelled to...
View Article14th Sunday – Year C (July 7th)
14th Sunday – Year C (July 7th) Readings: Isaiah 66:10-14 Psalm 66:1-7, 16, 20 Galatians 6: 14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 This Christian faith of ours is not just a private luxury. We are charged with a...
View Article15th Sunday – Year C (July 14th)
15th Sunday – Year C (July 14th) Readings: Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 37 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 God’s commands are not to be seen as a crippling burden, but as...
View Article16th Sunday – Year C (July 21st)
16th Sunday – Year C (July 21st) Readings: Genesis 18:1-10 Psalm 15:2-5 Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 God is utterly generous; and we, who are made in the image and likeness of God, are at our very...
View Article17th Sunday – Year C (July 28th)
17th Sunday – Year C (July 28th) Readings: Genesis 18:20-32 Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 Can you bargain with God? All of us like to think that we might (“If I’m good, will you...
View Article18th Sunday – Year C (August 4th)
18th Sunday – Year C (August 4th) Readings: Qoheleth 1:2, 2:21-23 Psalm 90: 3-6, 12-14, 17 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 What are the things that really matter in life? That is the uncomfortable...
View Article19th Sunday – Year C (August 11th)
19th Sunday – Year C (August 11th) Readings: Wisdom 18:6-9 Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-20, 22 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Luke 12:32-48 We have to be ready for God. Not that God disappears; we could not exist for a...
View ArticleSolemnity of the Assumption – Year C (August 15th)
Solemnity of the Assumption – Year C (August 15th) Readings: Revelation 11:19a: 12:1-6a, 10ab Psalm 45:10-12 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 On Thursday, we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady’s...
View Article21st Sunday – Year C (August 25th)
21st Sunday – Year C (August 25th) Readings: Isaiah 66:18-21 Psalm 117:1-2 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Will there be foreigners in Heaven? We tend unreflectively to assume that God has the good...
View Article22nd Sunday – Year C (September 1st)
22nd Sunday – Year C (September 1st) Readings: Sirach 3:19-21, 30-31 Psalm 68: 4-7, 10-11 Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Our God is a very unexpected one, as next Sunday’s readings remind us....
View Article23rd Sunday – Year C (September 8th)
23rd Sunday – Year C (September 8th) Readings: Wisdom 9:13-19 Psalm 90:3-6, 12-14, 17 Philemon 9-10, 12-17 Luke 14:25-33 Our God is different, and answering the call that comes to each of us from God...
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