This Sunday is the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany (Resumed). In the parable reprised in the Gospel reading for this Sunday, Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to a single grain of mustard seed that grows into a tree substantial enough for the birds of the air to “dwell in the branches thereof.”
Continue readingThis Sunday is designated the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany (Resumed) on the traditional liturgical calendar. In the parable pronounced by Jesus in the Gospel reading for this Sunday, the enemy who came and oversowed cockle among the wheat represents the devil.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Feast of All Saints, which celebrates all the saints in Heaven, both those whose feast days appear on the liturgical calendar and those who have not been canonized and may never be.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost. In the Gospel reading for Sunday, Jesus offers a parable illustrating the importance of a key passage in the prayer He taught his disciples: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. In the Gospel reading for the day (John 4:46-53), we encounter a certain ruler traveling to see Jesus and beseeching Him to heal his son who was “at the point of death.”
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, also celebrated in some locations as the External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary, the feast itself falling on October 7th.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. In the Gospel reading for the day (Matthew 9:1-8), we are told that upon His arrival by boat at “His own city” Jesus was met by a group carrying “one sick of the palsy lying in bed.”
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