Feast of St. Andrew, the Apostle
Rom 10:9-18 / Mt 4:18-22
There is something in us human beings that inclines us time after time to define one another as either insiders or outsiders. Sometimes the distinction is racial or ethnic,…

Is 11:1-10 / Lk 10:21-24
It’s an astonishing fact that in the 2000 years since the birth of Christ there have been only a handful of years in which there was no war.  We yearn for peace, we pray for…

Is 2:1-5 / Mt 8:5-11
With each passing year, we find ourselves confronted with abundant new evidence of our human inclination to fragment into in-groups and out-groups. Whether on the international scale or in our own neighborhoods, schools, and parishes,…

Is 63:16b-17, 19b: 64:2-7 / 1 Cor 1:3-9 / Mk 13:33-37
It was Thanksgiving time in the first grade, and the teacher asked each of the students to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. Predictably, some of…

Daniel 7:2-14 / Lk 21:29-33
With the end of the church year upon us, the prophet Daniel draws upon his own vivid imagination and the rich imagery of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition to paint for us a stunning picture of…

Feast of Thanksgiving
Sir 50:22-24 / 1 Cor 1:3-9 / Lk 17:11-19
It’s intriguing to imagine how different each of our lives might be had we been born in a different century, on a different continent, in an impoverished country,…

Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28 / Lk 21:12-19
Today’s reading from the Old Testament prophet Daniel draws us into the center of a terrifying event. In the course of an extravagant royal celebration hosted by the King of Babylon, a…

Daniel 2:31-45 / Lk 21:5-11
As we saw in yesterday’s Old Testament reading from the book of Daniel, the young man Daniel had grown wise and true by walking with the Lord with an open and undivided heart. Now his…

Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 / Lk 21:1-4
Lots of people spend their whole lives waiting for an invitation like the one that Daniel and his friends received in today’s reading from the book of Daniel. By order of the King of…

Ez 34:11-12, 15-17 / 1 Cor 15:20-26, 28 / Mt 25:31-46
There was a brand new president at the local university and he was known as a brilliant scholar and intellectual.  When he started appearing at one of the local…