Sunday, July 27, 2014

God has planted goodness in the world for us – Matt 13:44-46

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17th Sunday of Ordinary Time ; Holy Cross Parish. There are good things in the world.  And that’s worth celebrating.  Sometimes we work t...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

God will grow his kingdom to include us – Matt 13:24-43

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Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time ; Holy Cross Parish. If you had to guess whether she was wheat or weed, you’d probably have guessed wee...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

God is with us while we await the lavish harvest – Matt 13:1-9, Rom 8:18-23

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ; Holy Cross Parish. I wonder what we focus on when we hear this parable.  A lot of treatments of this ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

God plants us on a rock – 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18; Mat 16:13-19

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Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul ; St. Casimir and Holy Cross parishes. God plants us on a rock.  I find that a very realistic image for what ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

God feeds us with his love – Jn 6:51-58, Deut 8:2-3, 14b-16a, 1 Cor 10:16-17

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Corpus Christ ; Holy Spirit Parish (Newman Hall), Berkeley, CA.  [Posted late due to travel.] One day when I was in Haiti we had ice crea...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

This week's Office of Readings: Judges

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I've had an idea for a new blog series for a while, and figured I'd try it out today: look at the week's coming readings in Offi...

Love loves love, and us, as infuriating as we are – Exod 34:4b-6, 8-9, Jn 3:16-18 (Tri Sunday)

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Trinity Sunday, Year A -- Holy Cross - St. Stan's. “Early in the morning, Moses began to climb Mount Sinai, carrying two stone table...