Sundays Readings: Dt 18:15-20, 1 Cor 7:32-35, Mk 1:21-28Lecturas del Dia FALSE PROPHETS, TRUE PROPHETS In Deuteronomy today we hear that God’s very words will fill the mouth of a true prophet, but a false prophet will, in a manner of speaking, put mere mortalwords into God’s mouth. In Mark’s Gospel, we see Jesus teaching…
A NEW DAY DAWNS Today we hear how Jonah, sent by God to warn the people, storms through the streets of Nineveh, scaring the citizens out of their wits. And it works! God has a change of heart, seeing “by their actions” how the people turn from evil (Jonah 3:10). A new day dawns. Next…
Sundays Readings: 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42 Lecturas del Dia SPEAK, LORD, WE ARE LISTENING In today’s first reading God keeps calling out in the night to a sleeping boy. Neither the boy, Samuel, nor his teacher, Eli, understands who is calling. But God’s persistence convinces them. Samuel is then…
Sundays ReadingsLecturas del Dia THE WATERS OF BAPTISM When new sod is put in, it needs constant saturation with water. Landscapers say that this “knits” the sod to the soil. The same when a branch is grafted onto a tree: the poultice that joins them at the splice must be kept wet at all times.…
Sundays Readings: Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12Lecturas del Dia PROMISE FULFILLED Isaiah reminds the people of God that the land shall be restored to their possession, they shall rejoice to see their people return from the bondage of exile, and they shall be a light to the nations. In other words, through the…
Sunday’s Readings: SIR 3:2-6, 12-14; COL 3:12-21; LK 2:22-40 Lecturas del Dia WE ARE GOD’S HOLY FAMILY The scriptures of Israel are filled with many stories of barren couples who were miraculously granted the gift of chil- dren by God. Surely the best known among these is the first reading from today, from which Luke…
Sunday’s Readings: 2 SM 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16; ROM 16:25-27; LK 1:26-38Lecturas del Dia THE ETERNAL GOD King David wished that the ark of God might have a more permanent home. David may have envisioned some- thing like the cedar palace where he resided. God had in mind something more: a throne where David’s descendants…
Sunday’s Readings: IS 61:1-2A, 10-11, 1 THES 5:16-24, JN 1:6-8,19-28Lecturas del DIa JOHN THE BAPTIST At a school open house a woman could be overheard introducing her husband to some of the other parents. “Oh, Bill, I’d like you to meet Johnny’s father. And overhere, this is Marie’s mom; you know, the little girl from…
Sundays Readings: IS 40:1-5, 9-11, 2 PT 3:8-14, MK 1:1-8 Lecturas del Dia GOD’S DELAY In times of great difficulties scoffers taunt us, “Where is God? Why hasn’t your Lord come to save you now?” And we of faith respond much in the same way as Peter did in today’s second reading: the “delay” of…
Sunday’s Readings: IS 63:16B-17, 19B; 64.2-7, 1 COR 1:3-9, MK 13:33-37Lecturas del Dia MARK’S JESUS Mark’s Gospel is the shortest and tersest of all four. The discourses of Jesus tend to be terser as well. Mark’s portrayal of Jesus has none of the poetry of the Sermon on the Mount or the Sermon on the…