The First Sunday of Advent (C) Mass Readings: 82 – 84 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 60 Advent is a season of expectation. We are waiting and preparing for the coming of Our Lord, as if he had not already come to us nearly two thousand years ago. John the Baptist is our guide,…
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (B) Mass Readings: 160 – 162 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 This weekend—the last weekend of the Church’s liturgical year—we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. The preface of the Mass for the day says: As king he claims dominion over all creation that…
Thirty-third Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 157 – 160 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 This Sunday is the second to last Sunday of our liturgical year. As we approach the end of the Church year, our Gospel invites us to consider Jesus’ predictions and teaching about the end of the world. In the context…
Thirty-Second Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 154 – 157 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 In the Bible the widow is shown as needy and lowly. God loves the lowly as the ones who are most open to the call of faith. the faith that is ready to believe that through Christ there is real…
Thirty-First Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 152 – 154 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 As though to underline the position in God’s revelation to his people in both Old and New Testaments, at various points in the Church’s liturgical calendar we have a recurrence of readings referring to the two great commandments. There is…
Thirtieth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 149 – 151 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Some of us constitutionally resist change of any sort. In twenty five years, there have been huge changes in the world, in our local society and in the Church. As Christians we are pulled both ways, because Jesus is God,…
Twenty-Ninth Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 146 – 149 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 Apart from the time when we celebrate the passion and death of Christ at the end of Lent and the daily reminder of the sacrifice of the Mass, fairly frequently in the prophets and in the New Testament we come…
Twenty-Seventh Sunday (B) Mass Readings: 140 – 143 Order of Mass: Pages 7 – 47 God in the creation story this Sunday says “It is not good that man should be alone.” (Genesis 2:18) He is talking of the two sexes supporting each other in their existence. In some situations in life it is good…
