Sunday Soundbites

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AAugust 13, 2023 Today’s Sunday readings have two stories about two Biblical characters whose qualities I’d like to possess. Let me explain. In the First Reading we meet the prophet Elijah. Pursued by the ...

Transfiguration of the Lord Cycle AAugust 6, 2023 Religious composer Marty Haugen has a musical collection called The Song of Mark, which features stories from that Gospel. One song called “So Good to be Here,” is a delightful number that ...

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJuly 30, 2023 Are you a collector? I’ve collected stamps from childhood, although I’ve never had enough money to do it seriously. And I love books, and have a few small collections of titles ...

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJuly 23, 2023 “Earthy” images and a practical message–that’s today’s Gospel. Jesus tells several parables: two of them dealing with gardening and one dealing with baking. A gardener finds weeds in among his crop ...

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJuly 16, 2023 For many years I’ve worked at a parish that draws its members in part from a rural, farming area. Folks who work on a farm usually attend our earliest Sunday Mass. ...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AJuly 9, 2023 Everyone has a favorite Bible passage. Today’s Gospel is mine. The consoling words of Jesus are familiar: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened….” I find it hard ...