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

Forteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, July 5. 2026) Matthew 11:25-30   “‘Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you,’         … says the Lord. ‘TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS, FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND MY BURDEN LIGHT.’  He invites laborers to

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, June 28. 2026) Matthew 10:37-42   “Whoever loves … more than me….” (37)  The Order of Love “Now he is a man of just and holy life who forms an unprejudiced estimate of things, and keeps his affections also under strict control, so that he neither loves what he ought not to love,

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, June 21. 2026) Matthew 10:26-33   “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome….” (Prov 9:10)  “Simplicity then possesses in itself some beginning of God’s creation, that is, a simple and good will, the shapeless material, as it were, of what will be a good man, and at the outset of