Andrei Rublev’s Trinity depiction: wikimedia commons Readings for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Scripture passages for today’s Sunday Mass feature two well-known passages, both of which concern extending...
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1 Kgs 19:4-8Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9Eph 4:30—5:2Jn 6:41-51 In this week’s readings,...
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All the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ may be found here on...
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I. Memories that Name Who We Are Yesterday, I attended Heritage Day here in Dayton, which is...
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Sometimes I think Catholic moral theology doesn’t deal enough – or seriously enough...
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The recent death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has proven to be yet another divisive...
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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) DT 8:2-3, 14B-16A PS...
Read MoreGenesis 14:18-20 Psalm 110: 1, 2, 3, 4 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Luke 9:11b-17 At the end of today’s Gospel reading, we are left with an unmistakable image of abundance: “They all ate and were satisfied. And when the...
Read MoreProverbs 9:1-6 Psalm 67: 2-3, 5, 6, 8 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 In his book, Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell tells a funny story about the theologian Stanley Hauerwas who was visiting Chicago to give a lecture in the...
Read MoreTomorrow is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church and patron saint of students and Catholic universities. Born in Roccasecca (1225), Thomas entered the famous Benedictine abbey of Montecassino at the age of five,...
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