First Sunday of Advent ( C ) INTRO: One of the most difficulties, if not the most difficulty is the loss of life and the life of our loved ones, whether expected or unexpected…. This loss is HUGE! ??? How many of us have experienced this??? Another kind of loss that the church is trying […]
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: Last weekend was the celebration of HALLOWEEN! Typically, one dresses up as another character, another character than themselves to go trick or treating. Like the character of SPIDER MAN, RAGEDY ANN and so on. It is amazing what kinds of costumes there are!!! So, let us talk a […]
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2024 INTRO: It was an early diagnosis for me that my RIGHT EYE is “lazy.” They called it: amblyopia. People also have other kinds of eye problems that are far worse than lazy eyes and some have PHYSICAL BLINDNESS! But there is also: SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS that I believe this […]
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) INTRO: “What is it about wanting to be first?” I remember (and I am dating myself!!!!!) I would always run to the car BECAUSE I wanted the front seat!! Also… In school, I always wanted to be the first one seated by the door to answer the door!!! Playing […]
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2024 (B) INTRO: Many may at first think that the main character in this Gospel is the man who ran up to Jesus. Well, I believe the MAIN CHARACTER in this weekend’s Gospel is. GOD’S POWER for nothing is impossible for God. Let me explain why God’s Power is our […]
23rd Sunday Ordinary Time (B) INTRO: I was never really that good at “diagramming sentences”! Diagramming a sentence is an exercise to gain a deeper understanding of its grammatical structure. The trouble I had was identifying what the predicate was, or what is the noun, or pronoun and the verb. I still would not be […]
22nd Sunday in Ord Time (B) INTRO: To keep us twins, “individuals” my parents bought us DIFFERENT toys. Unfortunately, at times we would sneak around and take one another’s’ toys to play with which caused a lot of FRICTION between us brothers. Jesus makes clear in the Gospel that what causes us to act inappropriately […]
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time INTRO: At an early age, RESPONSIBILITY WAS TAUGHT. My responsibility was taking on the cleaning of the basement. In other words, I was expected to clean the FOUNDATION of our home! When my father was a newlywed and found out that they were having TWINS… he needed to take on […]
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) INTRO: I found this story…. Thirteen-year-old “Jeremiah” was about to celebrate his bar mitzvah. His grandmother, whom he called “Bubby”, asked what he’d like for a present. This 13-year-old, who could have asked his grandmother for anything in the world, but he said: “Bubby, I’d like you to make […]
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2024 INTRO: Interesting story about “murmuring.” I remember being in the third grade at our small catholic school. Our teacher was a sister of Notre Dame. Very tall and most likeable. School students were seated in the classroom alphabetically, so that means I was seated next to my twin […]