We celebrate Thanksgiving today in the United States. The readings the US Bishops have chosen for our Thanksgiving Masses may seem at first to be in total contrast with the readings that will be read elsewhere today, but ...

As we near the end of the liturgical year, we find many of our readings from Revelations and addressing final judgment. Even our New Testament readings have focused on the end of time, as we know it and our need to be ...

This Sunday, the last before Pentecost, we might call, "Election Sunday." In the First Reading for today's liturgy, we see the first apostles working out how to replace Judas who, "turned away to go to his own place." Two ...

Today in Revelations, we are given a picturesque description of the gifts of God. In the Psalm, this theme is continued along with an invitation to adoration of our great God. The dire warning of the gospel then seems out ...

PRE-PRAYERING || This liturgy and those of tomorrow (All Souls) are recallings of those faithful who have gone before we are gone. We have all known good and holy people of our pasts. We have all lost loved persons whom ...

As you begin this day extend a "happy Feast Day" greeting to all of your favorite Christians, this is the day to remember and imagine our salvation with great joy!|For a number of years I had the privilege of being the ...

Revelations 7: 2-4, 9-14 "...'These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.'...."|| Psalm 24: 1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 "...Who can ...

The Feast of All Saints brings a variety of images to mind. Who do we identify as saints? Who do we admire? Who do we choose to venerate?||A few weeks ago I was at the installation of a new abbot. As part of the blessing, ...

the times of great persecutions of the early Church, there were so many martyrs that it was impossible to commemorate each one on an individual day. Eventually, when the Church was given an old this great feast was born.|Today ...

Esau and Jacob were twins. Esau was born first and Jacob came out grabbing on to Esau's heel. Esau got his name because he was hairy and Jacob got his because he was a grabber. Hairy was a hunter who loved the open country. ...