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February 16, 2023
Feb. 19: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
On Oct. 2, 2006, a mentally ill man entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish village of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and, after letting the teacher and the boy pupils leave, proceeded to shoot eight young girls, ages 6 to 13, killing five of them and severely wounding the rest. Afterward he took his own life.
February 01, 2023
Feb. 12: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Sermon on the Mount forms the very heart of the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel from which our Sunday readings will be drawn throughout this liturgical year. We began hearing this segment of the Gospel with the Beatitudes on Jan. 29 and selections from the sermon will continue to the end of February.
February 01, 2023
Feb. 5: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
What would it have been like to hear Jesus preach? The Sermon on the Mount is not the transcript of a single speech or discourse but a collection of Jesus’ sayings that he spoke on a number of different occasions.
January 18, 2023
Jan. 29: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Editors’ note: It is with great sadness that we mourn the Nov. 8, 2022, death of Passionist Father Donald Senior, whose Scripture column we were honored to publish over the past six years. As we look for a new Scripture columnist, we will continue reprinting Father Don’s past columns, with the permission of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ.
January 18, 2023
Jan. 22: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
A memory that has stayed with me all my life is a Christmas visit to Dunning Veteran’s Hospital in Chicago. I was there with a group of fellow seminarians, invited to sing carols by one of our Passionist priests who was a chaplain there.
January 04, 2023
Jan. 15: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
With the Christmas season now completed, the liturgical year begins the period of “ordinary time.” Traditionally this new “ordinary” season starts with the account of Jesus’ baptism and that is the case this Sunday, with the selection from John’s Gospel.
January 04, 2023
Jan. 8: Epiphany of the Lord
Sometimes being a Christian means moving against the tide. Judging from current political trends, maintaining a global perspective and seeking to transcend social and economic boundaries might be a Christian stance that is a lot less popular today.
December 14, 2022
Jan. 1, 2023: The Octave Day of Christmas; Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
This is a feast day with several identities: the octave of Christmas, World Peace Day, the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord (Jewish tradition called for the male child to be circumcised on the eighth day after birth as a sign of membership in God’s covenant people), and, of course, New Year’s Day. Since the Second Vatican Council, the church subsumes all of these under the beautiful tribute of this day to Mary as the Mother of God, a tradition that goes far back into Christian history. In 431 A.D., the Council of Ephesus declared Mary to be “theotokos,” a Greek term that literally means “God-bearer.”
December 14, 2022
Dec. 25: The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)
Christmas is one of those rare days in the church’s liturgical calendar when one set of readings for the Eucharist is not enough. Four different Masses are available for the feast of Christmas and all of the readings are exuberant with joy at the birth of Christ.
December 14, 2022
Dec. 18: Fourth Sunday of Advent
In one of the most famous passages from the prophet Isaiah, King Ahaz is warned not to “weary” God but, instead, to be alert to the sign that God will give to assure Israel of its future: “The virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall name him Emmanuel.” Of course, the fame of this prediction is its repetition in Matthew’s account of the conception of Jesus that we hear this Sunday. The “angel of the Lord” appears to Joseph and explains Mary’s startling pregnancy by quoting this same passage.
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