GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/31/23 (Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 13:18-21 Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like?To what can I compare it?It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden.When it was fully grown, it became a large bushand the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Again he

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/30/23 (Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 13:10-17 Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.And a woman was there who for eighteen yearshad been crippled by a spirit;she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”He laid his

LOVE FOR GOD AND NEIGHBORS – 10/29/23 (Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,they gathered together, and one of them,a scholar of the law tested him by asking,“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”He said to him,“You shall love the Lord, your God,with all your heart,with all your soul,and with

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/28/23 (Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 6:12-16 Jesus went up to the mountain to pray,and he spent the night in prayer to God.When day came, he called his disciples to himself,and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles:Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew,James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,Thomas, James the

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/27/23 (Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 12:54-59 Jesus said to the crowds,“When you see a cloud rising in the westyou say immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does;and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the southyou say that it is going to be hot–and so it is.You hypocrites!You know

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/26/23 (Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 12:49-53 Jesus said to his disciples:“I have come to set the earth on fire,and how I wish it were already blazing!There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!Do you think that I have come to establish peace on

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/25/23 (Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 12:39-48 Jesus said to his disciples:“Be sure of this:if the master of the house had known the hourwhen the thief was coming,he would not have let his house be broken into.You also must be prepared,for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Then

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/24/23 (Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 12:35-38 Jesus said to his disciples:“Gird your loins and light your lampsand be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding,ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.Blessed are those servantswhom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,have

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 10/23/23 (Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to LukeLk 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,“Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”He replied to him,“Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”Then he said to the crowd,“Take care to guard against all greed,for though one may be rich,one’s life does not consist of

“GOD IS FAITHFUL” – 10/22/23 (Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 22:15-21 The Pharisees went offand plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech.They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying,“Teacher, we know that you are a truthful manand that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion,for