32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time – Of Empty Shelves and Leaky Roofs
Matthew 25:1-13 | 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A Of Empty Shelves and Leaky Roofs The first time I went to the grocery after we went into lockdown, I took a picture of the empty toilet paper aisle. Nothing….
Feast of All Saints – Holy Grief: Love Turned Inside Out
Matthew 5:1-12a | All Saints, Year A Holy Grief: Love Turned Inside Out A friend of mine’s mother died yesterday. He posted about her, “The sadness is just an immense amount of love turned inside out.” Shortly after, I opened…
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – An Unspoken Assumption of the Greatest Commandment
Matthew 22:34-40 | 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A An Unspoken Assumption of the Greatest Commandment A few years ago, I read A Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. It was a sometimes comical and sometimes poignant…
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Oozing Grey
Matthew 22:15-21 | 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Oozing Grey I can remember hearing this gospel proclaimed as a child and thinking the Pharisees asked a really dumb question. Everything belonged to God, even if the coins did…
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Of Creased Tunics and Wrinkled Hearts
Matthew 22:1-14 | 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Of Creased Tunics and Wrinkled Hearts My marriage improved dramatically when I finally realized that my husband literally didn’t see the clothes dropped on the floor, the dirty dishes in…
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Jesus’s Version of ‘The American Dream’
Matthew 21:33-43 | 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Jesus’s Version of ‘The American Dream’ I’m working with a student right now who is writing a paper on two authors and their definitions of the American Dream. It’s started…