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The Stranger at the Door: One Love for God and Neighbour

This thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time of Year A gathers a law for the stranger, a church marked by joy in tribulation and a question put to Jesus as a test. Our difficulty is a love divided between w...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 24, 2026

One More Year: The Vinedresser Who Digs Around Us and the Call to Grow

On this Saturday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church remembers Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Catalan bishop and the founder of a missionary family. Our difficulty is the habit of read...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 23, 2026

The Hour We Fail to Read: Seeking the Face of God Where We Are Divided

Among the saints the Church may recall on this Friday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time is John of Capistrano, a Franciscan priest, and today we meet Paul, a psalm and a crowd that reads the s...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 22, 2026

The Fire That Begins as a Seed: Christ Longs to See the Earth Kindled

Today, on the Thursday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church may also remember Saint John Paul II, pope and native of Poland, and she lets Paul and the psalmist prepare us for a startl...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 21, 2026

The Master Who Serves: Lamps Lit in the Night, and the Peace That Brings Us Near

Throughout the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time, the Church reads the letter of Paul, apostle of the nations, to the Ephesians, and on this Tuesday sets beside it a word of Jesus about servants who ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 19, 2026

The Man Who Built Bigger Barns, and the God Who Gives Life as a Gift

Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priests, and their companions, martyrs of Canada, are remembered today in an optional memorial, and on this Monday of the twenty-ninth week in Ordinary ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 18, 2026

Whose Image Is This? The Coin in Their Hands, and the Seal God Has Put on Us

On this twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time of Year A, the Church sets before us a king who did not know God, a young church faithful in hardship and a question laid as a trap. Our difficulty is the ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 17, 2026

The Father Who Insists: Light for the Eyes of the Heart

On this Saturday of the twenty-eighth week, the Church remembers Saint Ignatius, bishop of Antioch and martyr, and places before us a hard saying of Jesus. A quick reading hears in it a limit set to f...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 16, 2026

Nothing Hidden, Nothing Forgotten: the Plan of God, the Leaven of Pretence and the Sparrows

On this Friday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, the Church remembers Saint Hedwig, duchess of Silesia and widow, and Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, nun of the Visitation at Paray-le-Monial. ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 15, 2026

The Key of Knowledge and the Open Door: The Son Who Opens the Father's House

On the Thursday of the twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time, the Church keeps the memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus, the Carmelite reformer of Avila, virgin and Doctor of the Church. Our difficulty is ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 14, 2026

Led by the Spirit on the Right Way: The Fruit That No Tithe of Mint Can Replace

On this Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week in Ordinary Time, the Church remembers Saint Callixtus I, pope and martyr of Rome, and sets two ways before us. Our difficulty is an old one: we can walk a ...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 13, 2026

Clean Within: The Freedom of the Spirit, the Cup and the Alms

On this Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time, the Church reads the letter of Paul, the apostle to the nations, to the Galatians, while the Gospel seats us at a Pharisee's table. Our diff...

Bible Spirituality

Oct 12, 2026

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