Fourth Sunday of Advent • Year C
In this season of Advent, it is a holiday tradition to do some Christmas shopping and decorate our homes with Christmas trees, lights and ornaments. But it is even better to decorate our lives, our hearts with God’s presence, with his Word, with love, forgiveness and prayers. That’s what Jesus Christ wants from us, the best way to prepare for his coming.
Third Sunday of Advent • Year C
Like fire, Christ needs air to grow. Like all of us, Christ needs space to breath. Like the crowds, we may be filled with expectation, but if our hearts are more filled with lists of gifts to get and give, stuffed with plans for comings and goings, how will Christ squeeze his way into us?
Second Sunday of Advent • Year C
God will lay a road into every human heart. John the Baptist has come to start clearing the ground, to wield the axe and the sickle, to call men and women to repentance. John proclaims that God Himself is coming to deal with the marshes and deserts and mountains of the human heart.
First Sunday of Advent • Year C
What would the objective observer say about our lives? Are we loving or are we angry? The only way we will avoid a destruction that is similar to the one that awaited the people at the time of Jeremiah and the time of Jesus is to take advantage of the opportunities that await us in Advent. We must reassess our lives and redirect ourselves if we see that we are headed down the wrong road.
Solemnity of Christ the King – Year B
It is a vision imagined by the master builders of our medieval cathedrals, who carved in the tympanum above the front doors a triumphant Christ King surrounded by his angels, waiting to greet the faithful on their arrival. Augustine’s unquenched desire was to find rest in their company.
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
A visit to the hospital, a meal provided for the poor, an hour with those who grieve, some comfort for the brokenhearted, some support for those whose faith wavers, whose lives are cracked by addiction, whose hearts have been marred by violence – these are the way a Christian prepares for the final day.
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
Those who come from Abundance will always have enough, and those who come from Scarcity, no matter how much they have, will never have enough. It has nothing to do with money, rather it is an attitude of life: Do we see the glass half-full or half-empty?
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
Today Jesus challenges a one-dimensional understanding of love that allows religious people to express devotion to God, while ignoring the problems of the real people around them every day. Our world needs this neighborly reminder more today than ever.
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
The theological virtue of Hope, which is not simply a wish, is a confident expectation of God’s help in attaining eternal salvation based on God’s promises and love for us.
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
Jesus is fully human and fully divine! This is one of the great mysteries of our faith! Many times, we seem to focus only on the fact that he is fully divine; on his miracles, his power over nature, and his healings. And while these are important, it is equally important that Jesus was fully human; that he had thoughts and feelings and temptations like us!