25th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 24, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’ (Matthew 13: 13)
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time by Deacon Bullock
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) September 17, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
(Hail, Holy Queen Prayer)
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time September 10, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To what can I compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I show you for your
comfort, virgin daughter Sion? For great as the sea is your distress; who can heal you”
(Lamentations 2:13)
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) September 3, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.” (Proverbs 18:17 Douay-Rheims Bible)
The Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time August 27, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
Christianity never consists in knowing about Jesus; it consists in knowing Jesus. Jesus demands a personal verdict. (Emphasis added)
(William Barclay Commentary on Matthew)
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time (English Mass) Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) August 20, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.” (Hail, Holy Queen Prayer)
The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time August 13, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“For I could wish that I myself were accursed and separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kin according to the flesh.” (Romans 9:3)
The Transfiguration of the Lord August 6, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“God reveals himself to the humble in the humblest things, while the great who never penetrate
beneath the surface, do not discover him even in great events.”
(Father J.P. de Caussade, S.J., Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence, p. 5)
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 30, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“This preaching and this faith the Church, although scattered over the whole world, diligently observes, as if it occupied but one house, and believes as if it had but one mind, and preaches and teaches as if it had but one mouth. And although there are many dialects in the world, the meaning of the tradition is one and the same.”
(Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies, circa AD 130-200)
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 30, 2023 Year of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ark of the New Covenant
“This preaching and this faith the Church, although scattered over the whole world, diligently observes, as if it occupied but one house, and believes as if it had but one mind, and preaches and teaches as if it had but one mouth. And although there are many dialects in the world, the meaning of the tradition is one and the same.”
(Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies, circa AD 130-200)