Sundays Readings: IS 55:1-3, ROM 8:35, 37-39, MT 14:13-21Lecturas del Dia OUR DEEPEST NEEDS The word of God serves up a tremendous feast for us today. Isaiah beckons all who hunger and thirst to come to the Lord for satisfaction. The psalmist cries out, “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our…
Sundays Readings: 1 KGS 3:5, 7-12, PS 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130, ROM 8:28-30, MT 13:44-52 OR 13:44-46Lecturas Del Dia A SHARE IN GOD’S KINGDOM Today concludes a three-week series of Gospel texts in which we have listened to a total of seven parables about the Kingdom. The believer is asked to consider the request…
Sundays Readings: WIS 12:13, 16-19, ROM 8:26-27, MT 13:24-43 OR 13:24-30 Lecturas del Dia GOOD SEEDS Today Jesus continues to speak to his followers using parables. What a rich treasure we are given today in three parables about the kingdom of heaven! The kingdom is likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,…
Sundays Readings: IS 55:10-11, ROM 8:18-23, MT 13:1-23 OR 13:1-9 Lecturas del Dia GOD’S WORDS Each day we are bombarded with thousands of words. From the moment our clock radios click on in the morning, until the last moment of the day when the television is turned off or someone bids us “goodnight,” our life…
Sundays Readings: ZEC 9:9-10, ROM 8:9, 11-13, MT 11:25-30 Lecturas del Dia SHARE THE BURDEN “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). These words of our Savior seem to be in stark contrast to the previous chapter from the same Gospel, when we were…
Sundays Readings: 2 KGS 4:8-11, 14-16A, ROM 6:3-4, 8-11, MT 10:37-42 Lecturas del dia CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY Day in and day out, we are required to make judgment calls informed by tough, durable, serviceable Christian love. We do what we can do, and God takes notice. God is in charge of rewards, and a glass of…
Sundays Readings: JER 20:10-13, ROM 5:12-15, MT 10:26-33 Lecturas del dia ENTHUSIASM AND GRAMMAR There is a good reason that the writings of St. Paul don’t show up as examples in grammar textbooks. Today’s reading is a case in point. It begins with one of those long Pauline run on sentences that leave lectors gasping…
Sundays Reading: DT 8:2-3, 14B-16A, 1 COR 10:16-17, JN 6:51-58 Lecturas del Dia FOOD FROM HEAVEN God sustained the people of Israel for forty years in the desert with manna sent down from heaven, and Moses doesn’t want them to forget it. God brought forth water from stone for them to drink, and Moses doesn’t…
Sundays Readings: EX 34:4B-6, 8-9, 2 COR 13:11-13, JN 3:16-18 Lecturas del Dia GRACE AND ETERNAL LIFE Moses is a man after our own hearts, for haven’t we all dealt with more than our share of stiff-necked people? Indeed, have- n’t we all gotten a little stiff-necked ourselves at times? Complaining . . . impatient…
Sundays Readings: GN 11:1-9, ROM 8:22-27, JN 7:37-39 Lecturas del Dia THE RICHNESS OF THE SPIRIT Students, and most adults recalling their school days, are familiar with the phrase “compare and contrast” that shows up from time to time on tests. Today we hear two different accounts of the giving of the Holy Spirit to…