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“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. 46 When he finds a pearl of…
Today’s Gospel is the parable about the king’s son, sent by his Father to visit the vineyard they owned, who is murdered by the vineyard tenants. The parable expresses Matthew’s dismay over the rejection of Jesus by his own Jewish brethren. The tenants in the parable are the Jews who…
Today and for the next two weeks, we hear stark Gospels: today the rejection of the Father’s authority by the first son; next week the killing of the king’s son by the vineyard tenants; and in two weeks, the banquet to which those invited do not come. Gospel writers are…
As a child and as an adult, I have always had a fear of death. I really had not experienced death until my father passed in 2000, followed by the death of my mother in 2003. The past several years I have been blessed to be able to sit at…
Of all the parables Jesus told, the parable of the laborers in the vineyard (today’s Gospel) is the hardest to love! It is so unfair! It seems that we inherit by birth a gigantic sense of fairness — parents and elementary teachers quickly learn to respect that inbuilt instinct in…
Peter asks his famous question in today’s Gospel parable about the forgiven and the unforgiving servants: How often must I forgive? (Mtt 18: 21-25) Forgiveness is difficult, as we all know from our life experience. And isn’t it true that, like in the Gospel, when we owe something to someone…
The Sisters of the Precious Blood stand alongside other people of faith and of good will and compassion to urge Congress to protect the lives and futures of the DREAMERS* by passing the bi-partisan Dream Act of 2017. By no choice of their own these Dreamers were brought to the…
Sometimes we hear quoted to us passages from Scripture about not judging, about forgiving 70 times 70, and about being merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful. And all this is great advice! We will hear it next week! But today, in the first reading from Ezekiel and in our…
In last week’s Gospel, Jesus asked Peter: Who do you say I am? In a burst of inspired enthusiasm and reverence, Peter makes a deep profession of faith: You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God. In today’s Gospel, Peter’s enthusiasm is considerably lessened when he learns that…
You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church … For Catholics, the Gospel of this 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time is heard with reference to our Church and its leader, the Pope. Somewhat like cosmologists looking back to the big bang to discover when the universe…
