Gospel & Reflection for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025

Today we pray that like Cardinal Hume and the Tax-Collector, that we will always cultivate the virtue of humility in our lives, never seeing it as weakness but as the source of our greatest strength.

Gospel & Reflection for the Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025

Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God. Prayer is not about forcing God into our way of thinking or coercing Him into giving us what we want. It is about us coming into God’s way of thinking, trusting that in the end, all will work as is His will is for us, and as our need is.

Gospel & Reflection for the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025

iI is easy to be grateful, to be trusting, to be believing, when all is good for us. Yet, faith asks us to be thankful, always. Thankful and trusting in the good and the bad, in the joys and the sorrows, in the failures and the successes. This is not an easy task.

Gospel & Reflection for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

The good things we accomplish, the strength that we find, the endurance and hope which it brings to us, these are the natural fruits of faith. What we accomplish with our faith, we do so only through the continuing presence and works of God in our lives. God keeps us.

Gospel & Reflection for the Twenty Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

With God, it is all about the treasure of our nature and the wealth of our humanity. He wishes only that we would have a richness of heart, with a profit of kindness. That richness of heart is clear in you, and in our community.