Dear friends in Christ, Today’s Gospel highlights the kingship of Jesus in the scene of the crucifixion: his most unusual throne is the cross, his crown is the crown of thorns. Christ is enthroned as King on the cross for he has triumphed over sin and...
Dear OLPH Family and Friends, Only one more week to the end of this Church Year and the Feast of Christ the King! Only two more weeks to the beginning of the new Church Year with the First Sunday of Advent! Next week after the Sunday...
Dear friends in Christ, Some people seem to assume that what doesn’t make sense to them doesn’t make sense at all. This is the situation in today’s Gospel passage about the Sadducees who didn’t believe in the resurrection. They came to Jesus quoting Moses’ law that...
Dear OLPH Family and Friends, Only four more weeks until Advent and the beginning of a new Church Year! In the new Church Year we will hear from St. Matthew’s Gospel. As usual, I strongly recommend that you make the time to read the whole of...
30th Sunday - C Dear friends in Christ, In today’s Gospel Jesus taught how prayer could change people’s life using the story of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector who went up to the Temple area to pray. The Pharisee stood high in front of the altar,...
29th Sunday of the Year - C Dear friends in Christ, The Readings of this weekend tell about the great importance of prayer in our lives: we are to be faithful in prayer because God is faithful in listening to us. Like Moses in the First Reading...
28th Sunday Dear friends in Christ, The Scripture Readings today present the beauty of one of the great human virtues, gratitude. In these readings we’re told of the eleven people who were cured from their leprosy, one in the First Reading by the prophet Elisha, and ten...
27 Sunday C 19 My dear friends in Christ, In today’s First Reading, prophet Habakkuk prayed to God, crying out, “How long, O Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry to you ‘Violence!’ But you do not intervene.” And the Lord answered,...
26th Sunday - C Dear friends in Christ, Today’s readings are clearly about God’s command to love our neighbor and how obeying that command provides for our eternal salvation. Amos was a prophet of the poor, who preached against materialism and the oppression of the poor in the...
25th Sunday Dear OLPH Family and Friends, On this 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus’ parable is straightforward. A manager is about to get fired, so he falsifies everybody’s loan agreements, handing out deep discounts. Now all the debtors are friends who can help him in the...
