30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
JESUS’ “OWN” COMMANDMENT Ex 22:2-26; I Thes 1:5-10; Matt 22:34-40 At the time of Jesus, Jewish Law had greatly expanded from the original Ten Commandments. One writer says that there…
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WORLD MISSION SUNDAY – YEAR A 2020
THE GREAT COMMISSION Is 2:1-5; Rom 10:9-18, Matt 28:16-20 Today is World Mission Sunday. This annual observance was instituted 94 years ago in 1926 by Pope Pius XI’s Papal decree.…
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29th SUNDAY OF YEAR A – 2020
GIVE TO CAESAR AND TO GOD Is 45:1, 4-6; 1Thess 1:1-5b; Matt 22:15-21 This Sunday Jesus tells us, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs…
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28TH SUNDAY YEAR A
THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN LIVING Is 25:6-10; Phil4:12-14, 19-20; Matt 22:1-14 In today’s Gospel (Mt. 22, 1-14), we hear a parable about a king who gave a wedding feast for…
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27th SUNDAY –YEAR A—2020
GOD’S TREMENDOUS LOVE AND MAN’S INGRATITUDE Is 5:1-7; Phil 4:6-9; Matt 21:33-43 Anyone who has a business that involves allowing someone else to use what you own, such as those…
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26th SUNDAY OF YEAR A
“WHICH OF THE TWO DID HIS FATHER’S WILL?” Ez 18:25-28; Phil 2:1-11; Matt 21:28-32 The gospel of today is a parable about the contrasting attitudes of two sons. The first…
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25th SUNDAY YEAR A – 2020
GOD’S EXTRAVAGANT GENEROSITY Is 55:6-9; Phil 1:20-24,27; Matt 20:1-16a Today, in the first reading, we are reminded by the Prophet Isaiah that our ways are not God’s ways. The ways…
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FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE MOST HOLY CROSS
Num 21:4-9; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 “HAIL TO THE MOST HOLY CROSS OF JESUS!” Today we celebrate the Feast of Exaltation of the Most Holy Cross. Today’s feast invites us…
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24th SUNDAY YEAR A – 2020
HOW TO FORGIVE Sir 27:30-28:7; Rom 14:7-9; Matt 18:21-35 At some point or another, every one of us has been wronged. People hurt us each day. These hurts can be…
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23rd SUNDAY OF YEAR A
FRATERNAL CORRECTION Ez 33:7-9; Rom 13:8-10; Matt 18:15-20 Conflicts abound everywhere that there are human beings. There are conflicts in the family, in the churches, in cultural groups, in schools,…