Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A, Dec 21, 2025) Matthew 1:18-24    This evening, we light our final Advent Candle, a candle of fulfillment. The fullness of time has come. During these days of Advent, we have tried to respond in love to the divine spark in each person, each circumstance, all creation. We have trodden the Way, who is

Third Sunday of Advent (Year A, Dec 14, 2025) Matthew 11:2-11   The third Sunday of Advent. The Sunday of joy. Rejoice. Glad tidings. It has been said, joy is the echo of God’s life in us. In these days of opening out to our God who fills every atom of creation with his presence, these days of quiet openness

Second Sunday of Advent (Year A, Dec 7, 2025) Matthew 3:1-12   You might say that this week of Advent is a journey into knowing the way on which we walk. If we are on a journey, it is important to know where we wish to go and which path to take. Sunday’s liturgy cries out in the first reading

First Sunday of Advent (Year A, Nov 30, 2025) Matthew 24:37-44 Come.  In days to come…  O come, Emmanuel.  We will hear this cry of the human heart for God many times throughout the liturgy in these days of Advent. Why still the cry if the actual physical coming of God into our world in the person of Jesus is already

First Sunday of Advent (Year A, Nov 30, 2025) Matthew 24:37-44 Three Comings of the Lord   We know that there are three comings of the Lord. The third lies between the other two. It is invisible, while the other two are visible. In the first coming he was seen on earth, dwelling among men; he himself testifies that they saw

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Year C, Nov 23, 2025) Luke 23:35-43   “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.…” (Luke 23:42)   “Take from me, O Lord, heart of stone. Take away my hardened heart. Take away my uncircumcised heart. Give me a new heart, a heart of flesh, a pure heart!

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, Nov 16, 2025) Luke 21:5-19 “How the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and votive offerings…” (Luke 21:5)   “Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight … Is there some One Principle from which all take their grace…? Undoubtedly this Principle exists; it is something that is perceived at the first glance, something which the soul

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, Nov 9, 2025) Lk 20:27-38 “He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” (Luke 20:38) The death of his father was announced to a certain monk. He turned to the messenger who had brought him the news and replied: “Stop your blasphemies. My father is