Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thirty-first Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10; 1 Thes 2:7b-9, 13; Mt 23:1-12. Reading 1: Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10: A great King am I, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. And now, O priests, this … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirtieth Week – OT1 Readings: Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12-, 25-29; Lk 14:1, 7-11. Reading 1 (Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29): Brothers and sisters: I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am a child of Israel, a descendant of … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Thirtieth Week – OT1 Readings: Rom 8:18-25; Lk 13:18-21. Reading 1 (Rom 8:18-25): Brothers and sisters: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us. For creation awaits with eager expectation … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thirtieth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Exo 22:20-26; I Thes 1:5-10; Mt 22:34-40. 1/ First Reading: RSV Exodus 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, save to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed. 21 “You shall not wrong a stranger or … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twenty-ninth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Isa 45:1, 4-6; I Thes 1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21. 1/ Reading I: RSV Isaiah 45:1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Twenty-eighth week – OT1 Readings: Rom 4:13, 16-18; Lk 12:8-12. Reading 1 (Rom 4:13, 16-18): Brothers and sisters: It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twenty-eighth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Isa 25:6-10a; Phi 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14. Reading 1: (Isa 25:6-10a): On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twenty-seventh Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: Isa 5:1-7; Phi 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43. Reading 1 (Isa 5:1-7): Let me now sing of my friend, my friend’s song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Twenty-sixth week – OT1 Readings: Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Lk 10:1-12. 1/ First Reading: RSV Nehemiah 8:1 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Monday – Twenty-sixth Week – OT1 Readings: Zec 8:1-8; Lk 9:46-50. Reading 1 (from the RSV): This word of the LORD of hosts came: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her. Thus says the LORD: … Read more