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By Gabe Hurrish Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary TimeSeptember 21, 2025Amos 8:4-7, 1 Timothy 2:1-8, Luke 16:1-13 Today’s Sunday readings struck me right in the face. I live in South Sudan where almost everything written in the readings resonates with the current struggles of the people. The leaders of this extremely poor East African country have ...

By Kathy McNeely Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy CrossSeptember 14, 2025Numbers 21:4b-9, Philippians 2:6-11, John 3:13-17 We all have our stories. These stories are shaped by our cultural experience, by what our parents teach us and by the way we choose to respond to the world around us. While living and working in Guatemala among Indigeno...

By Julie Lawler Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary TimeSeptember 7, 2025Wisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14:25-33 Today’s Gospel reading leads us to reflect on and examine our priorities. What is most important? It is hard to choose between God and other commitments, but God is inviting us to choose God above all else, possessions and relat...

By John Siyumbu M.M.  Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 31, 2025Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14 I lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia, as part of my formation and preparation for ordination to the Maryknoll missionary priesthood. Having lived with the Dazas, a wonderful host family, during my language school pr...

By Connie Krautkremer, M.M. Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 24, 2025Is 66:18-21 | Heb 12:5-7, 11-13 | Lk 13:22-30 Who is saved? Jesus was asked if the saved will be many or a few. “You might be surprised,” Jesus responds. Don’t be too sure of yourself. There is a door in this week’s Gospel story; it is open for some and closed fo...

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 17, 2025Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53 When I read today’s Scripture readings, at first I found them rather grim, but it didn’t take too much thinking about it for me to realize how very appropriate they are for us in our world, today. In the first reading, Jeremiah – j...

By Joanne Miya Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary TimeAugust 10, 2025Wis 18:6-9 | Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 | Lk 12:32-48 Today’s readings made me ask myself, “What exactly is faith?” How would you define faith? Christians often reference Hebrews 11:1 which offers this explanation: “Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction...

By Heidi Cerneka Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 27, 2025Gn 18:20-32 | Col 2:12-14 | Lk 11:1-13 What parent among us will give our child a snake when she asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? We are called today by these scripture readings, by the Gospel, by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, and by our own communitie...

By Louise Locke Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeJuly 20, 2025Gn 18:1-10a | Col 1:24-28 | Lk 10:38-42 This Sunday’s Gospel story of Mary and Martha has long been one of the passages of Scripture I have identified with the most. Martha complains to Jesus that her younger sister, Mary, has chosen to sit at his feet listening to him instead of assis...