Third Sunday, Year A
This Sunday, the liturgy opens with a particularly solemn proclamation of a prophecy from Isaiah. In God’s name, the prophet announces that a glorious era …
Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A
“let the clouds. Rain down the Just One;Let the earth be opened and bring forth a Saviour.” The liturgy of the Fourth Sunday of Advent “fills …
Third Sunday of Advent, Year A – Gaudete Sunday
“Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice. The Lord is near.” This antiphon, which every year opens the liturgy of the Third Sunday …
Second Sunday of Advent, Year A
The liturgy always celebrates the unique mystery of the Salvation of God: this mystery enters into its most important phase with the incarnation of the …
Thirty-Third Sunday, Year C
Once again this week, the Gospel is an account of a teaching given by Jesus in Jerusalem before his Passion. It is the last saying …
The Feast of The Dedication of the Basilica of the Lateran
The Basilica of the Lateran (and not Saint Peter’s) is the Cathedral Church of the diocese of Rome; the Pope is its bishop. It gets …
The Feast of All Saints
Today we celebrate the great Feast of All Saints. Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation in order to share with the faithful the revelation …
Thirtieth Sunday, Year C
The Book of Ecclesiasticus which we read today is like a traditional catechism, a compendium of received truths that never attempts to expand one’s reflection …
Twenty-Ninth Sunday, Year C
If ever we have felt that our prayers don’t seem to be answered, in todays Gospel Jesus tells us to pray without losing heart; and …
Twenty-Eight Sunday, Year C
The first reading this Sunday recalls how “Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram…a leper,”was healed by Elisha. In fact, this is only one …