Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B); June 9, 2024 Gn 3:9-15. Ps 130. 2 Cor 4:13-5:1. Mk 3:20-35 Deacon Jim McFadden There was once a young boy sitting on the bench during a Little League baseball game just itching to play. Feeling a bit forlorn, he spoke to his manager and wondered, “Coach, why …
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ; 6-2-2024 Ex 24:3-8. Ps 116. Heb 9:11-15. Mk 14:12-16,22-26 Deacon Jim McFadden Most of us are aware that under the direction of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, that the National Eucharistic Revival will culminate in July in Indianapolis. Our diocese was part of that Pilgrimage…
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (B); May 26, 2024 Dt 4:32-34. Ps 33. Rom 8:14-17. Mt 28:16-20 Deacon Jim McFadden In his Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas claims that “it is impossible to believe explicitly in the mystery of Christ without faith in the Trinity.” The doctrine of the Trinity is what…
The Solemnity of Pentecost (B); May 19, 2024 Acts 2:1-11. Ps 104. 1 Cor 12:3-7,12-13. Jn 20:19-23 Deacon Jim McFadden In today’s first reading of our Liturgy, the coming of the Holy Spirit is presented in dramatic fashion—comparing it to “the rush of a violent wind” (Acts 2:2). What does this image tell us? …
Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (B); 5-12-2024 Acts 1:1-11. Ps 47. Eph 1:17-23. Mk 16:15-20 Deacon Jim McFadden The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord embraces two elements. On one hand our gaze is directed towards heaven where the glorified Jesus is seated at the right hand of God the Father…
6th Sunday of Easter (B); May 5, 2024 Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48. Ps 98. 1 Jn 4:7-10. Jn 15:9-17 Deacon Jim McFadden Today’s Gospel—John chapter 15—brings us back to the Last Supper, which contains our Lord’s final, lengthy discourses. After having compared himself to the vine and us to the branches, Jesus then explains what fruit is…
5th Sunday of Easter (B); April 28, 2024 Acts 9:26-41. Ps 22. 1 Jn 3:18-24. Jn 15:1-8 Deacon Jim McFadden You may be familiar with the Co-Exist bumper sticker, which horizontally lists the great religions of the world: it uses the Islamic crescent moon for ‘C’, a peace sign for the ‘O’, the Hindu Om…
4th Sunday of Easter (B); April 21, 2024 Acts 4:8-12. Ps 118. 1Jn 3:1-2. Jn 10:11-18 Deacon Jim McFadden Two lovers look at one another and say without any reservation: “I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love and to honor you all…
3rd Sunday of Easter (B); April 14, 2024 Acts 3:13-15,17-19. Ps 42. 1 Jn 2:1-5. Lk 24:35-48 Deacon Jim McFadden The Easter season offers us a spirituality of hope. If Jesus can undergo such suffering and death and rise to new life, he can do the same thing in our life—right here, right now;…
The Cross is the Way Home 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 30, 2026 Jer 20:7-9. Ps 63. Rom 12:1-2. Mt 16:21-27 Deacon Jim McFadden After establishing Peter as the rock of his Church, Jesus then begins to speak…
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 23, 2026 Is 22:19-23. Ps 138. Rom 11:33-36. Mt 16:13-20 Deacon Jim McFadden Midway through his public ministry, Jesus ventured with his disciples to the northern reaches of the Promised Land, to the…
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 16, 2026 Is 56:1,6-7. Ps 67. Rom 11:13-15,29-32. Mt 15:21-28 Deacon Jim McFadden Today’s Gospel (Mt 15:21-28) presents us with a unique example of faith in Jesus’s encounter with a Canaanite woman,…
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