The Sunday Liturgy

The Greatest Commandment

October 25 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Ex 22:20-26; Ps 17; 1 Thes 1:5-10; Mt 22:34-40) This Sunday, the Liturgy offers us a passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew, which narrates an...

More Important than the Coin Is the Image on It!

October 18 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Is 45:1, 4-6; Ps 95; 1 Thes 1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21) The One who spent His life doing good (cf. Acts 10:38) is now fighting His last battles before...

Revolving Around the Right Axis

October 11 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Is 25:6-10; Ps 22; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Mt 22:1-14) In the immense domain of creation, from the macrocosm to the microcosm – man – everything...

Danger Comes from Within, and so Does the Solution

October 4 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Is 5:1-7; Ps 79; Phil 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43) Tuesday of Holy Week. The Saviour delivers a pointed parable to the high priests and elders...

Divine Pedagogy in Correcting

September 27 – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time(Ez 18:25-28; Ps 24; Phil 2:1-11; Mt 21:28-32) This Sunday’s Liturgy presents us with the passage from the Gospel of St. Matthew in which Our Lord...

It Is Always the Time for Conversion!

September 20 – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time(Is 55:6-9; Ps 144; Phil 1:20-24, 27; Mt 20:1-16) It is during His last journey to Jerusalem that Our Lord Jesus Christ tells the parable of...

Forgiveness: God’s “Weakness”

September 13 – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time(Sir 27:30-28:7; Ps 102; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18:21-35) The maxim of the law of retaliation, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,”...

Fraternal Correction: a Refined Degree of Love

September 6 – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time(Ez 33:7-9; Ps 94; Rom 13:8-10; Mt 18:15-20) The Gospel passage for this Sunday’s Liturgy is found between two excerpts that give it full meaning....

The Secret of Love and the Seed of Eternity

August 30 – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time(Jer 20:7-9; Ps 62; Rom 12:1-2; Mt 16:21-27) The Divine Master questioned the Apostles about His identity, to which Peter promptly replied: “You are the...

“Tu es Petrus”

August 23 – 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time(Is 22:19-23; Ps 137; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20) Moses, the incomparable prophet, tireless shepherd of Israel, infallible transmitter of divine Revelation and architect of the...

Showing Prejudice… But Towards Whom?

August 16 – 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time(Is 56:1, 6-7; Ps 66; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28) There is something enigmatic in this Sunday’s Gospel. A Canaanite woman – therefore not Jewish, a pagan...

Jesus Also Casts Us into the Storm!

August 9 – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time(1 Kgs 19:9, 11-13; Ps 84; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33) The idea that God saves us in the storms of life is very beautiful, quite common, and...