By: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, March 6 Deuteronomy 11:18,26-28; Psalm 31:2-3,3-4,17,25; Romans 3:21-25,28; Matthew 7:21-27 A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her 5- and 6-year-olds. After explaining the commandment to “Honor thy father and thy mother,” she asked, “Is there a commandment that teaches us […]
Continue readingBy: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 6 Isaiah 58:7-10; Psalm 112:4-5,6-7,8-9; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; Matthew 5:13-16 During these winter days, any hint of light becomes a time of celebration. When the sun breaks through the gloomy days, we are lifted in spirit. As each day gets a bit longer, […]
Continue readingBy: Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jan.239 Isaiah 8:23 — 9:3; Psalm 27:1,4,13-14; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13,17; Matthew 4:12-23 “When you are up to your neck in alligators, it is hard to remember that you were sent there to drain the swamp.” That is probably a feeling many of us encounter in […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB The Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 9 Isaiah 42:1-4,6-7; Psalm 29:1-2,3-4,3,9-10; Acts of the Apostles 10:34-38; Matthew 3:13-17 The Christmas season always seems too short to me. I am not referring to the Christmas shopping season, which evidently begins just before Halloween. I mean the liturgical season of Christmas. […]
Continue readingBy: By Sister Rachel Bergschneider, OSB Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord (Christmas), Jan. 8 Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-2,7-8,10-11,12-13; Ephesians 3:2-3a,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 I once was on a plane trip, sitting behind a young man who seemed to be quite pleased with himself. During the flight he continually left his cell phone on and […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Dec. 26 Sirach 3:2-7,12-14; Psalm 128:1-2,3,4-5; Colossians 3:12-21; Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 In the missal there are three Masses of Christmas — the Mass at Midnight, another at dawn, and Mass During the Day — each of them with its own set of […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB Third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 12 Isaiah 35:1-6a,10; Psalm 146: 6-7,8-9,9-10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11 Many times the writing in the Bible is influenced as much by geography as by theology, and in the first reading from the book of Isaiah we have examples of both. The prophet uses […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Dominic Garramone, OSB First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 28 Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122:1-2,3-4,4-5,6-7,8-9; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44 The prophet Isaiah is a steadfast companion in Advent. The prophet introduces the season in the first reading by describing the pilgrimage by which we journey to Christmas. He identifies three motivations for undertaking the […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Douglas Grandon Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov. 14 Malachi 3:19-20a; Psalm 98:5-6,7-8,9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19 My father attended a one-room, country school, in rural Dixon. When his teacher would instruct the students at the various grade levels, his older and younger brothers couldn’t help but overhear each other’s lectures. […]
Continue readingBy: By Father Douglas Grandon Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Oct. 31Wisdom 11:22 — 12:2; Psalm 145:1-2,8-9,10-11,13,14; 2 Thessalonians 1:11 — 2:2; Luke 19:1-10 The third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization ended last week with dramatic testimony from the 18-year-old daughter of a former assistant to the Communist dictator of North Korea, Kim Jung Il. […]
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