15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 10:25-37 What Do You Avoid to Stay Out of the Dirt? The parable of the Good Samaritan is told to a “scholar of the law” who wants to “test” Jesus (v.25). He…
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 What Makes You Rejoice? Jesus sends out seventy-two. Look closely at that number. He doesn’t send out the twelve. He sends out seventy-two! Why seventy-two? It’s a specific number, a…
13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C
13th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Luke 9:51-62 Moving Forward Rejection. We’ve all felt it. None of us like it. This gospel passage is the second time Jesus has been rejected. The first time was at the beginning of…
The Holy Spirit within Us – Pentecost Sunday, Year C
Pentecost Sunday, Year C John 20:19-23 The Holy Spirit within Us Pentecost is when the disciples finally get it. Up until Pentecost, they don’t understand that Jesus is in them, that the way to Jesus is already within them—not what…
Do We Ever Know the Last Time is the Last? – Ascension Sunday, Year C
Ascension Sunday, Year C Luke 24:50-53 Do We Ever Know the Last Time is the Last? The past few weeks have been borrowed time for the disciples. They never knew when Jesus would show up—in the Upper Room, on the…
Jesus’s Definition of Peace—Not Ours – 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C
6th Sunday of Easter, Year C John 14:23-29 Jesus’s Definition of Peace—Not Ours My favorite line in this gospel is, “My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you” (v. 27). It’s…