The Gospel for Tuesday’s celebration of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles: When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them,…
Month: June 2021
July 28 update to Sunday Note
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: There was a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years. She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse. She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the…
A note for Friday, June 25, on Psalm 128:1
Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! from Psalm 128:1, for daily Mass, June 25, 2021 Once again, the “fear of the Lord.” It is idiomatic Hebrew that does not translate easily or simply…
Abram shows the way …in action!
Excerpt from the first reading for Tuesday’s daily Mass: Genesis 13:5-18 Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. There were quarrels between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock…
Monday Update to June 20 Sunday Note
From the Sunday Note, with additional thoughts: So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 from Sunday’s second reading Creation is presented to us in Genesis as God’s orderly work in 6 steps, beginning with “Let there be light!” on…
Psalm note for Friday
From Psalm 112, used as the Psalm in Wednesday’s daily Mass readings: Blessed the man who fears the Lord, who takes great delight in his commandments… Openhanded he gives to the poor; his justice stands firm forever…* Paul quotes the second line in his second letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor. 9:9) as he encourages…
Self-testing
2 Corinthians 13:5-6 5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless, of course, you fail the test. 6 I hope you will discover that we have not failed. Paul has a specific application of his advice in mind when he writes this to…
Mustard on Monday…
From the Sunday Note with additional thoughts– He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is…
Brief Friday Note, June 11
2 Corinthians 12: 14 Now I am ready to come to you this third time. And I will not be a burden, for I want not what is yours, but you. Children ought not to save for their parents, but parents for their children. 15 I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your sakes… Paul…
God is generous. Pass it on.
This week and next we will dip into 2 Corinthians, which is the source for the first reading in daily Masses just two weeks every other year. It is not used on Sundays nearly as often as 1 Corinthians, either. This passage is a bit longer than we might hear in church at a daily…