21st Sunday of Ordinary Time – Looking for Jesus
John 6:60-69 | 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B Looking for Jesus By the end of chapter 6 of John, the number of Jesus’s followers has dwindled. At the beginning of the chapter, He miraculously fed 5,000 (which was…
Assumption of the Blessed Mother – Ordinarily Hard at Work
Luke 1:39-56 | Assumption of the Blessed Mother, Year B Ordinarily Hard at Work Life often seems to be ordinary, but beneath the surface, God is hard at work. The change that’s coming is already there, but we just don’t…
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Active Love
John 6:41-54 | 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B Active Love Anyone with a close relationship with anyone knows the cliché that love is not a feeling, it’s a verb. Relationships must be fed or they die. God is…
18th Sunday of Ordinary Time – He is Waiting for Us
John 6:24-35 | 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B He is Waiting for Us The Bread of Life Discourse in John begins with the people looking for Jesus. Some of them had just been fed in the miraculous Feeding…
17th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Go to the Source
John 6:1-15 | 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B Go to the Source When I worked in Faith Formation, we had a saying: If you feed them, they will come. But in this gospel passage, Jesus worked that saying…
16th Sunday of Ordinary Time – No One Way
Mark 6:30-34 | 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B No One Way I have never really paid attention to this preamble to Mark’s Feeding of the 5,000. Now I understand why the disciples were frustrated and wanted to send…