1 Nov 2023 0 Comment

Today is Stewardship Sunday We are stewards. We are servants who are entrusted with the gifts of time, talent and treasure. God has given us our very life and the precious gift of time. He has given us our talents and has helped each one...
25 Oct 2023 0 Comment

“Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

  Parents and care givers who send a child off to college or to a different city to live on their own may observe that their child gradually becomes aware of who fed, clean, clothed and housed them in their infant years; who...
17 Oct 2023 0 Comment

“Jesus again spoke to the chief priest and elders of the people in parables . . .”

  Jesus told many parables. They were stories, not necessarily based on fact, but that communicated an important truth. Jesus used parables to get the attention of the people and to make them think. Jesus even used parables to...
9 Oct 2023 0 Comment

“The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.”

  A wise employer who paid above average wages and provided very good benefits would tell all of his new hires, and remind his existing employees, “If you do your job you get to keep it.” He treated his employees like...
2 Sep 2023 0 Comment

How can I better reflect Jesus in my actions ?

Today’s gospel is the continuation of what we read last week. Last week, when Jesus asked His apostles who do they that He is ? Peter gave the right answer when he said that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Jesus praise...
24 Jul 2023 0 Comment

“I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.”

 In today’s Gospel passage we hear Jesus use parables to compare the kingdom of God, two about seeds and one that compares yeast mixed with flour. The messages in the parables can be expressed in more modern maxims: “Bloom where...
19 Jul 2023 0 Comment

“The one who hears the Word and understands it . . . Bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirty fold.”

The people who heard Jesus tell the parable of the sower would have understood: seeds that fall on fertile ground would have a better chance of producing better than seeds that land on a path or rocky ground. Jesus was aware that they may...
9 Jun 2023 0 Comment

Corpus Christi, the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus

Today is Corpus Christi, the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus. We are celebrating the core and center of our catholic faith.  We are celebrating a special feast.  Every Sunday, we receive the body and blood of Jesus.  Today we have...