Abbey 2015 Isaiah 52:7–10 Hebrews 1:1–6 John 1:1–18 Christmas day is traditionally filled with music, with carols whose message is one of peace and joy. We hear songs about the messiah king being born… In our first reading from Isaiah, we hear a chorus also. But first there is the soloist’s voice: a messenger is […]
Abbey 2014 Christmas – Mass during the day – ABC Isaiah 57:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-6 John 1:1-18 A word is a very powerful thing! Think of it. When someone gives a word of consolation, our faces light up, a burden seems lifted from our shoulders. Someone offers a word of advice and we see the way again. The […]
Abbey 2014 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – A Isaiah 58:7–10 1 Corinthians 2:1–5 Matthew 5:13–16 Today Jesus is all about discipleship. He is clarifying and also calling us to be present to who we are: we that are captivated by him and follow him. To make the concept of discipleship as concrete as possible […]
Abbey 2014 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – A Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 I Corinthians 1:1-3 John 1:29-34 The color of the season may be green. It may be Ordinary Time but the Word we have heard won’t let us let go of the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany cycle we have just celebrated. That cycle still lingers. There is […]
Abbey 22 September 2013 25th Ordinary Sunday – C Amos 8:4-7 I Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 Prophets were not people to be messed with. And Amos was one of those prophets you would rather not see walking in the streets of your city. It was not because prophets were walking around predicting the future that […]
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time- C Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21–23 Colossians 3:1–5, 9–11 Luke: 12:13–21 “Vanity of vanities,” says the preacher, “vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!” Its another way of saying point blankly, things are fleeting, fleeting, fleeting. All is passing. Jesus says: “Take care to guard against all greed, for though you may […]
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – C 2 Samuel 12:7–10, 13 Galatians 2:16, 19-21 Luke 7:36–8:6 The gospel story we have just heard shows us again Jesus’ preference for the marginalized, the weak, the ones we quickly call sinners. The way the story is told we cannot escape noticing and feeling where God’s favor and […]