Published August 24, 2026
Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles, whom the Gospel of John identifies with Nathanael. The reading takes us back to the very first days of Jesus's public life, before any miracle had been worked, before any sermon had ...
Published: August 23, 2026
Today's Gospel places us at a quiet but decisive turning point in the ministry of Jesus. He has led his disciples north, away from the crowds of Galilee, into the region near Caesarea Phili...
Published: August 22, 2026
Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a feast that crowns the octave of the Assumption and invites us to consider what it truly means to reig...
Published: August 21, 2026
There is something almost disarming about how Jesus answers the lawyer's question in today's Gospel. A scholar of the law, testing him, asks which commandment in the Law is the greatest. It...
Published August 20, 2026
Today's Gospel places before us one of the more unsettling parables in Matthew's Gospel. Jesus tells the story of a king who prepares a wedding feast for his son and sends his servants out, ...