As you may know, the word “gospel” means “good news.” And today the gospel truly is good news. Because today, Jesus tells his disciples to take a day off! We all need to go on retreat from time to time in order to rest from work and spend time with Jesus. Yet, while some of […]
Today we’ll focus in on the passage in our second reading, taken from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. In this passage, Paul describes a thorn in his flesh, and he even says that it is an “angel of Satan” that is beating him. We all know this verse, if only obliquely, because we […]
Have you ever had one of those days when everything happens at once? One of those days when everyone seems to need your attention right this very second? Many of you are thinking, “um, yeah, that’s called being a parent.” It seems that we all have days like these, and in our gospel reading today, […]
It’s a rare day that we celebrate a Baptist’s birthday in the Catholic Church. Today we take a short break in our cycle of Ordinary Time to celebrate the St. John the Baptist’s birthday. It is not every year that we celebrate this solemnity at a weekend Mass, but this year, the 24th of June […]