The cross is the way home
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…
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why did the father permit the crucifixion?
The Exaltation of the Cross; September 14, 2025 Nm 21:4b-9. Ps 78. Phil 2:6-11. Jn 3:131-7 Deacon Jim McFadden In 1988 there was a beautifully crafted drama film about twin brothers, Dominick and Eugene. Dominick played by Tom Hulce just off his sterling performance in Amadeus, has an intellectual disability due to an accident…
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A slap in the face
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C); Sept. 7, 2025 Wis 9:13-18b. Ps 90. Phlm 9:10,12-17. Lk 14:25-33 Deacon Jim McFadden This Sunday’s Gospel from Luke is really hard to take. Jesus—the one we associate with love fully incarnate—is telling the crowd, is telling us, that we must hate people. Not just anyone, but our…
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Holiness is always “original”
5th Sunday of Easter (C); May 18, 2025 Acts 14:21-27. Ps 145. Rv 21:1-5. Jn 13:31-35 Deacon Jim McFadden A former teaching colleague of mine, a consecrated religious, had a sign in her classroom which blasted: “If you were accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” That raises…
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The True Shepherd Who Always Stays With Us
Fourth Sunday of Easter (C); May 11, 2025 Acts 13:14,43-52. Ps 100. Rv 7:9,14b-17. Jn 10:27-30 Deacon Jim McFadden In today’s Gospel from John, our Lord Jesus is presented to us as the true shepherd of the People of God. As such, the relationship that binds Jesus to us, the sheep of his flock,…
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“Do You Love Me?”
3rd Sunday of Easter (C); May 4, 2025 Acts 5:27-32,40b-41. Ps 30. Rv 5:11-14. Jn 21:1-19 Deacon Jim McFadden We continue to read from the pages of John’s Gospel which recounts the third time the Risen Christ appears to the Apostles. It is a meeting that takes place in the Sea of Tiberius (aka…
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Anastasis! He is Risen, He is Alive!
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord; April 20, 2025 Acts 10:34a,37-43. Ps 118. Col 3:1-4. Jn 20:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden Today we are celebrating the apex of the liturgical calendar: The Resurrection of the Lord. Even though it is the pivotal event of our Faith, we are so familiar with this solemnity,…
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“Father, Forgive Them”
Palm Sunday (C); April 13, 2025 Lk 19:28-40 (procession). Is 50: 4-7. Ps 22:8-917-20,23-24. Phil 2:6-11. Lk 22:14-23 or 23:1-49 Deacon Jim McFadden In the Sermon of the Mount, which contains the crux of his proclamation of the Kingdom of God, Jesus instructed us on the Mystery of Forgiveness, which is an absolute imperative…
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Everything I Have Is Yours
4th Sunday of Lent (C); March 30, 2025 Jos 5:9-12. Ps 34. 2 Cor 5:17-21. Lk 1205:1-3, 11-32 Deacon Jim McFadden Today is Laetare Sunday, a time for rejoicing because the Father reveals to us that “Everything I have is yours” (Lk 15:31b). Lent is more than half over, and redemption and forgiveness and…
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Revealing God’s Glory
2nd Sunday of Lent (C); March 16, 2025 Gn 15:5-18. Ps 27. Phil 3:17-4:1. Lk 9:28-36 Deacon Jim McFadden The readings for the Second Sunday of Lent awaken a sense of wonder to a world beyond our own—a mystical consciousness in which we encounter the glory of God. So, in our first reading Abraham—the…
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Christians: Watch Out!
3rd Sunday of Lent (C); March 23, 2025 Ex 3:1-8,13-15. Ps 103. 1 Cor 10:1-6. Lk 13:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden Throughout the Catholic Church, today is the First Scrutiny for catechumens. Who are the catechumens? They are those who have inquired into becoming a member of the Catholic Church and, after a period of…
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“Who Do You say that i am?”
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…
“Lord, Help Me”
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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