Gospel of the Week
24th Sunday of Ordinary TimeSeptember 12, 2021Mark 8, 27–35 JESUS and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” […]
Gospel of the Week
23rd Sunday of Ordinary TimeSeptember 5, 2021Mark 7:31-37 AGAIN JESUS left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought […]
Gospel of the Week
WHEN the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
The Story behind “The Praying Hands” Painting
Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table for this mob, the father and head of […]
Gospel for the Week
21st Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 22, 2021John 6:60–69 MANY of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he […]
Gospel of the Week
Solemnity of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin MaryAugust 15, 2021Luke 1:39–56 MARY set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and […]
PRAYERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
PRAYERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMICPrayer by Pope Francis “We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God”. In the present tragic situation, when the whole world is prey to suffering and anxiety, we fly […]
Feast Day of St. Dominic de Guzman
St. Dominic was born in 1170 and the founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, Domingo de Guzmán lived an austere life, traveling and spreading the Gospel. He and Saint Francis of Assisi are good […]
God’s Face
God’s Faceby: Todd Wielgos Where do I go to see God’s face? Is it in the reflection from the stained glass windows of the ornate cathedralOr in the rainbow after a summer evening’s shower? Is […]
Gospel of the Week
18th Sunday of Ordinary TimeAugust 1, 2021John 6:24–35 WHEN the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they […]