The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (1:1-25) Our reading today is given to us on the Sunday which falls before the Nativity of Our Lord (which we will celebrate tomorrow evening). In this gospel reading we see that St. Matthew has undertaken the immense task of documenting much of the genealogy […]
Monthly Archives: December 2018
The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians. (3:4-11) The Church is not a philosophical club. It is not a place where we come and share ideas and then we leave and go about our lives living as we please. When you were brought into the Church you were brought in freely […]
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (13:10-17) Today’s gospel passage is frightful to me because it gives us an example of the ways in which the faithful religious observer or even the leader of the religious community, in this case, the synagogue, can lose their way as they seek to do […]
The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (18:35-43) It can be difficult for us to relate at times to some of the people that we encounter in the gospel readings. People who have lived very difficult lives. People who have had terrible afflictions or diseases. Most of us have not known such […]