5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
My child, I have chosen you by name. Because I have called you, I will equip you. Be not afraid and pull out into the deep.
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
By our baptism we are prophets, consecrated and appointed by the Lord to go out to the nations and speak His word, faithfully as He commands. Before we were formed in the womb, we were known by God. God has a plan for you, a destiny. Embrace it.
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
“The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are true Word of God” (CCC 140). When Ezra opened the book, the entire congregation stood up, praised God, lifted their hands in worship, then prostrated themselves before God, thus recognizing His presence among them through His Word. We replicate this act during the reading of the Gospel at Mass. Through today‘s liturgy of the word we are invited to reflect upon the place Holy Scripture occupies in our daily spiritual lives. St. Jerome teaches: Ignorance of Scripture, is ignorance of Christ.1st Sunday in Ordinary Time
At the start of Ordinary Time the Church places before us the New Eve. At Jesus’ first sign at Cana and then again at Jesus’ last sign at Calvary, is the Woman. Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of death.
Baptism of the Lord
Entering into the Jordan River, our beloved Saviour intentionally enters the story: salvation history on one hand and into our individual realities and lives, on the other. He becomes one like us, except in sin, and standing with us in the muck of our lives, reveals to us that we are children of the Father. Jesus continually helps us to hear and recognize the Father’s word to us: you are my beloved son/daughter, in whom I delight.