The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time October 31, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #42)
The Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
Deacon Charlie Groves’ Homily
Genesis 1:26-31; Genesis 2:18-24; Tobit 8:4-8; Proverbs 31:10-13; Sirach 26:1-4;
Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 19:3-6; Mark 10:6-9; John 15:12-16
Romans 8:31; I Corinthians 13:4-13; Ephesians
The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time October 24, 2021 Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #41)
The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
Deacon Groves Homily
“Willed by God in the very act of creation, marriage and the family are interiorly
ordained to fulfillment in Christ and have need of his graces in order to be healed
from the wounds of sin and restored to . . . the full realization of God’s plan”
(Familiaris Consortio – Pope John Paul II)
The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) October 17, 2021
“Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, ‘All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.’ At this, Jesus said to him, ‘Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’ Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.” (Matthew 4:8-11)The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass) October 3, 2021
The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/The Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass)
October 3, 2021
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #38) The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
“The tempter approached saying to him: If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread. He said in reply, ‘It is written: One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:3-4)
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – September 26, 2021
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #37)
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterword he was hungry.” (Matthew 4:1-2)
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Sept. 12, 2021
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass)
September 12, 2021
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #35)
“The supernatural life of grace has a beginning, and we call that beginning baptism.” (My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone, p.520)
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Sept. 12, 2021
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – 9.19.2021
The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost (Latin Mass)
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflections #36)
“How, then, can they (infants) accept the Christian The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021Faith? That requires belief, and they are incapable of believing?” (Fathers Rumble and Carty, Radio Replies 2nd Volume, #735)
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 5, 2021
“Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thow to me? And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descend as a dove and coming upon him.” (Matthew 4:13-16, Douay-Rheims Holy Bible)
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 29, 2021
Year of the Eucharist and Parish (Reflection #33)
The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
“On July 25,1968, shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI promulgated a much-anticipated encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae. Historically, it was a time of much confusion: the sexual revolution was in full swing, the Pill was being hailed as the long-awaited perfect contraceptive to cure the social ills related to overpopulation, and even Catholic clergy advised the pope to reconcile the Church with the times in response to the report of the commission established by Pope John XXIII.” (Kimberly Hahn, Life-Giving Love, p. 21)
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 22, 2021
The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021
“The childhood is fully vulnerable because the child is powerless, while those who care for him enjoy an all-powerful freedom. Instead of leading him rightly they can lead him astray in a variety of egotistical ways, oftentimes in a manner which is quite unconcious of its moral indifference.” (Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child, pp. 12-13)