Reflections

December 15, 2024 – The Third Sunday of Advent [YEAR C]
Fr. Drew Hoffman I LOVE Christmas music. I know some will argue that the liturgical season of Christmas doesn’t begin until Christmas Day and that listening to Christmas music in… Read More
December 8, 2024 – The Second Sunday of Advent [YEAR C]
Fr Thomas Hoisington Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11  +  2 Peter 3:8-14  +  Mark 1:1-8 In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! +     +     + Baskin-Robbins used to advertise… Read More
December 1, 2024 – The First Sunday of Advent [YEAR C ]
Fr. Michael Brungardt Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14; 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2; Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Of all of the seasons we celebrate in the Church, Advent is by far… Read More
November 24 – Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe [YEAR B]
Fr Thomas Hoisington Daniel 7:13-14   +   Revelation 1:5-8   +   John 18:33-37 “To Him… who has made us into a kingdom, priests for His God and Father, to Him be glory… Read More
November 17, 2024 – The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time [YEAR B]
Fr Matthew Siegman The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]Daniel 12:1-3  +  Hebrews 10:11-14,18  +  Mark 13:24-32 During the month of November, the feasts of our Church remind us that… Read More
November 10, 2024 –
The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time [Year B]
Fr. Thomas Hoisington I Kings 17:10-16  +  Hebrews 9:24-28  +  Mark 12:38-44 “… she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” Tithing is a biblical tradition… Read More
Sunday, November 3, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]
Fr. Drew Hoffman Deuteronomy 6:2-6   +   Hebrews 7:23-28   +   Mark 12:28-34 While the Gloria is one of the most beautiful and moving moments of Holy Mass, it’s also one of the… Read More
Sunday, October 27, 2024 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]
Fr. Thomas HoisingtonThe Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]Jeremiah 31:7-9  +  Hebrews 5:1-6  +  Mark 10:46-52 Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” Catholics believe in the inalienable dignity of every… Read More
Sunday, September 22, 2024 – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]
Fr. Drew Hoffman It is a conversation we have all experienced, likely very recently. Someone is talking about a great achievement: maybe a coworker is telling you about a promotion… Read More
August 25, 2024 – The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time [B]
Fr. Matt Siegman This Sunday, in the long form of the reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, we encounter a reading that strikes many as out of place… Read More
July 28, 2024 – The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time [Year B]
Fr. Michael Brungardt 2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145:10-11, 15-18; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 Beginning today, and for the next several weeks, the Church proposes the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. John 6 is a pivotally important chapter,… Read More
July 14, 2024 – The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time [Year B]
By Fr. Matt Siegman As Amos is cast out of Bethel in the first reading this week, he says, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company… Read More