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Pentecost Sunday
John 20:19-23 Gospel Summary On Pentecost Sunday we celebrate the wonderful good news that the risen Lord has poured out his Spirit upon us, first

The Ascension of the Lord
Lectionary 58, Gospel Matthew 28: 16-28 Why did our Lord depart from us and ascend to the Father? This is a question which I have

Sixth Sunday of Easter
John 14:15-21 Gospel Summary To love Jesus means to trust him. And that means that we trust his radical teaching about an ideal of unselfish

Fifth Sunday of Easter
John 14: 1-12 Gospel Summary That the Church gives us this Last Supper discourse of Jesus for an Easter Season Eucharist is illuminative. These words

Fourth Sunday of Easter
John 10:1-10 Gospel Summary In this gospel passage, Jesus draws upon imagery associated with sheep herding. The people to whom he spoke were well aware

Third Sunday of Easter
Gospel – Luke 24; 13 – 35 The Church celebrates Easter for fifty days, with the fiftieth day being Pentecost. During these first weeks of

Second Sunday of Easter
Lectionary 43 Today is a day of many names. Properly speaking the second Sunday of Easter, yet in recent years it is also commonly called

Easter Sunday
John 20:1-9 Gospel Summary John’s resurrection account is relatively brief and differs significantly from the Synoptic accounts. Mary Magdalene has a prominent role here and

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s passion
Matthew 26:14-27:66 Gospel Summary Matthew’s passion narrative begins with the plot of Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus and continues through the well-known scenes: celebration of

Fifth Sunday of Lent
John 11: 1 – 45 As we near the end of Lent we have the Gospel of the death and resuscitation of Lazarus. For Jesus,

Fourth Sunday of Lent
Lectionary 31 Today is Laetare Sunday, the day when the opening antiphon for mass is taken from the final chapter of the book of the

Third Sunday of Lent
John 4:5-42 Gospel Summary It is high noon when Jesus stops to rest by the well of Jacob. His revelation about life-giving water will provide

Second Sunday of Lent
Matthew 17 1-9 Gospel Summary The fact that Jesus takes his more intimate disciples to the top of this nameless mountain alerts us to the

First Sunday of Lent
Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7, Matthew 4: 1-11 The first reading for this weekend is the second story of creation. God forms man out of the clay

Seventh Sunday Ordinary Time
Matthew 5: 38 – 48 Sometimes we allow the unworthiness that results from of our sinfulness to overshadow the great love and mercy God has

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary 76 Today we open the scriptures to an exhortation from an inspired writer who shared the same name as our Lord: Jesus. More fully,

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 5: 13-16 Gospel Summary Jesus tells his disciples that they are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. He adds,

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary 70 Gospel Matthew 5:1-12A The virtues of humility and gentleness are clearly the keynotes of this Sunday’s scripture readings. The prophet Zephaniah begins by

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 4:12-23 This Gospel passage takes place right after Jesus had spent forty days in the desert praying and fasting in preparation for his ministry.

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
John 1: 29-34 Gospel Summary These verses are the climactic conclusion of the prologue to the gospel according to John (1: 1-34). In the prologue