Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A.  Sep 6, 2026) Matthew 18:15-20   “… at times bear gently, at times correct firmly…” “If any brother is found to be contumacious, or disobedient, or proud, or a murmurer, or in any way has contempt for the Holy Rule and the precepts of his seniors, let him, according to Our Lord’s precept, be admonished once or twice in

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A.  Aug 30, 2026) Matthew 16:21-27 “Fixed on the Things of God.”

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A.  Aug 23, 2026) Matthew 16:13-20   “There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is the fount of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being. It welcomes me with indescribable humility.”   —

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A.  Aug 16, 2026) Matthew 15:21-28   The Generosity and Abundance of God Truly we are not restricted in you, O Lord, for you give profusely. Nor do you give only to a few, nor only a few gifts, not in a parsimonious or niggardly way, but anticipating our merits and surpassing our desires.

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, Aug 9. 2026) Matthew 14:13-21   How His Disciple Maurus Walked on the Water       One day as venerable Benedict was in his cell, the aforesaid young Placidus, a monk of the holy man, went out to the lake to get water and, letting down the bucket to take up water,

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, Aug 2. 2026) Matthew 14:13-21 “I determined   to live   to flower   FOR YOU.”

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, July 26. 2026) Matthew 13:44-52 I am the treasure   hidden in the field you found me  rejoiced you sold everything and  bought me   You are the beautiful pearl     I found it  I sold everything I had   even to the death on the Cross   and bought you   We found

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, July 19. 2026) Matthew 13:24-43 “O wheat among the weeds! O grain among chaff! O lily among brambles! Thank him, brothers, thank him .…”          “HE HAS GIVEN HIS ANGELS CHARGE OF YOU.” (Ps 91:11) What marvelous esteem and what truly great love of charity! For who gives charge, to

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, July 12. 2026) Matthew 13:1-23 “a chiding word, a bitter word, an upbraiding word .…”  “But occasionally I am obliged to dig round about, seeing that they have appointed me keeper and dresser in the vineyard. Alas! I who have not cultivated nor kept my own [vineyard] am required, as long as I