Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time The rich young man A man ran up….and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “….You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you… Read More »ENFL170
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time The prayer in difficult situations When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do a man’s faults when he speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in his conversation is the test… Read More »ENFS163
Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Jesus and the kids And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me;… Read More »ENFL169
Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time The wedding He set out from there and went into the district of Judea (and) across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them. The Pharisees approached and asked,… Read More »ENFL168
Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Requirements of the discipleship Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones… Read More »ENFL167
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent The law and the freedom Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass… Read More »ENFL060
Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time The fixation of a career They left from there and began a journey through Galilee …..He was ….telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three… Read More »ENFL165
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Daily exorcism He asked them [the disciples] , “What are you arguing about with them?”Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit. Wherever it seizes him,… Read More »ENFL164
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time From the man of flesh to the spiritual one So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first; rather the natural and then the… Read More »ENFS162
February 22, The Chair of Saint Peter, apostle Who is Jesus for Peter When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others… Read More »ENSM005
