Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
The secret of the success of both apostles was in their capacity to love. Peter was chosen to be head of the Church not because of his degrees but because he “loved much.” Paul became a powerful advocate for Christ not because of his scholarship but because through his love for Christ his listeners were able to believe that they too were included in Christ’s love.
Pentecost Sunday • Year C
There, the people stood a long way off, there was an atmosphere of dread, not of love. I mean, they were so terrified that they said to Moses, ‘Speak to us yourself, and do not let the Lord speak to us, lest we die’ (Ex 20:19). So God came down, as it is written, on Sinai in fire; but he was terrifying the people who stood a long way off, and ‘writing with his finger on stone’ (Ex 31:18), not on the heart. Here, however, when the Holy Spirit came, the faithful were gathered together as one; and he didn’t terrify them on a mountain, but came in to them in a house.
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
What good is it for you to know the Law, to understand the commandments of God, to know how to distinguish between good and evil if you do not act accordingly? Is not your conscience punished on account of that very knowledge? So learn that you may put your knowledge into practice.
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
Let us knock so that he may open, and make us drunk on invisible wine; because we too ourselves were also water, and he has made us into wine, he has made us wise, given us the flavor and taste of wisdom; for we who were previously insipid and flavorless with folly are now wise with the flavor of faith in him. And no doubt it belongs to this same wisdom, one with honor of God, and the praise of his greatness, and the love of his most powerful mercy, that we should understand what was accomplished in this miracle.