Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent (Year C) (23 March 2025)
Rather, the fact of suffering, the fragility of life and the fact that we are not in control, ought to make us available to Jesus’ message.
Michael Whelan SM, PhD
Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent (Year C) (16 March 2025)
Peter’s suggestion that they build tents shows that he has not begun to understand what is happening
Gospel for the First Sunday of Lent (Year C) (9 March 2025)
Consider the way evil works. It must use some good as an instrument to achieve its ends. On its own, evil is impotent. Ironically, evil needs the good in order to achieve its destructive ends.
Gospel for the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (2 March 2025)
There are connections between us that come from our shared humanity, all of us being creatures made in the image and likeness of God.
Gospel for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (23 February 2025)
Our journey through life as people baptized into Christ is characterized by the goal of communion in God who ‘is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked’. This is a work of grace to which we ought to give our wholehearted assent.
Gospel for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (16 February 2025)
In the light of the foregoing, is it not reasonable to think that Jesus deliberately spoke in ways that puzzled, confronted and even bewildered his listeners, his intent being to break them free of their entrenched ways of thinking?
Gospel for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (9 February 2025)
The familiar, can seduce us with a promise of control. When we think we are in charge, our anxiety is assuaged. We feel good! That state, however, is a fiction.
Gospel for the Feast of Presentation of the Lord (Year C) (2 February 2025)
God’s Spirit and our spirit work together (see Romans 8:16). There we find both the energy and direction of our religion as Christians.
Gospel for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (26 January 2025)
But we do well to acknowledge a subtle danger here. St Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) – himself an outstanding proponent of charitable works – recognized that danger when he warned that, if we do not love the poor, they will not forgive us for helping them. In other words, we may – unconsciously or even consciously – use the needy to avoid dealing with our own deep needs.
Gospel for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) (19 January 2025)
Mary’s way is to be hidden and unknown. In an advertising-obsessed culture such as ours, where self-promotion is lauded, this seems silly. However, who would you want as your friend, a person who is effective at self-promotion or a person of substance? Mary reminds us of the value of presence