This Sunday is the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Father s Day It s strange but true Because of when Easter fell there was no 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time either in 2001 or 2004 As a result neither John Donahue nor Dianne Bergant ever wrote about this Sunday s set of readings for A

According to popular interpretation Barnabas means a person who consoles and encourages this name was given to a certain Joseph from Crete who some weeks each year served in the liturgical functions of the Jerusalem Temple We meet him first in the Acts of the Apostles where he is praised fo

Well is it for many or for all Even here on the Southern tip of Africa where the number of Catholic mother tongue English speakers is minuscule it s also a hot topic Our local Catholic paper has been running a muscular correspondence between prelates liturgists and pew-sitters H

This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ For Daniel Harrington s comments on the readings click here For Dianne Bergant s 2004 comments on the readings click here For John Donahue s 2001 comments on the readings click here Jim McDermott SJ

Blessed Ordinary Time when everything in the Divine Office is simple and simply in one place A time when we are relieved of that maddening fiddling and flipping back and forth which a confrere of mine calls an occasion of sin Blessed is this time when there are no liturgical extravaganzas to

Wading into the deep waters of Trinitarian reflection is always risky especially for folks like me who don t know how to swim The problem of course is not God s it is our inability to take it all in But the Feast of the Holy Trinity invites us consider how much God desires that we rec