Monday, September 1, 2025 1 Thess 4:13-18; Lk 4:16-30 Today’s Gospel invites us to be heralds of Divine healing. In the Gospel, we find Jesus making a return to his hometown of Nazareth. At the synagogue, Jesus finds himself surrounded by familiar faces, family, and friends. Though the setting looks friendly at the beginning, very […]
Saturday, August 30, 2025 1 Thess 4:9-11; Mt 25:14-30 Today’s Gospel invites us to grow in our faithfulness through the parable of the talents. The Gospel begins with the master distributing talents (a talent was roughly the wages of twenty years for a laborer!) to each of his three servants ‘according to his ability.’ Thus,
Friday, August 29, 2025 The Passion of St. John the Baptist 1 Thess 4:1-8; Mk 6:17-29 The passion of John the Baptist invites us to reflect on our response to the truth of God. We may reflect on the three principal characters of today’s Gospel, namely Herodias, Herod, and John the Baptist. 1. Herodias opposed
