For 21 November 2024, The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based on Luke 19:41-44

For 21 November 2024, The Presentation of Mary, based on Revelation 5:1-10

Fr. Scott Steinkerchner, OP breaks open the readings for the Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, where both Daniel and Jesus predict that the world will fall apart, but God will gather the faithful from the ends of the earth and save them. When our world falls apart, we can fall apart with it in despair, adding to the pain, or we can remember that Jesus is still in the world, still bringing life out of death, and we can look for those signs, trust God, and be beacons of hope for others.<br>
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Sorry, today's Word of Hope was taken down for being too political.

For 6 November 2024, Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time, based on Luke 14:25-33

For 3 November 2024, The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, based on Deuteronomy 6:2-6

On this Feast of All Souls, we ponder what heaven might be like, and we pray that everyone might get there.

On this Solemnity of All Saints, we hear the Beatitudes, and the many ways that we can be holy. With so many different saints in heaven already pulling for us, we can be hopeful of finding our own way to heaven.

Fr. Scott Steinkerchner, OP breaks open the readings for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, showing how God works to unite people, while we try to create lines to divide people from one another.<br>
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Readings: Genesis 2:18–24; Hebrews 2:9–11; Mark 10:2–16

Job's friends "know" he must have sinned if God's hand is against him. Job "knows" that he will see his vindication with his own eyes, and so he and his friends talk across each other. The deeper truth of the Book of Job is beyond either of these positions. The point of the Synod on Synodality is to get to the deeper truth beyond what either "side" thinks, because that deeper truth can transform us, our Church, and our world.