St. Barbara’s wheat
‘When the wheat goes well, everything goes well.’ A food often associated with the feast of St. Barbara is St. Barbara’s wheat. Why wheat? Legend says that Barbara was fleeing from Roman persecution when she ran through a field of freshly planted wheat. As she ran, the wheat grew instantly, covering her path and protecting […]
Daily Gospel – MT 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on […]
Matthew 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said, “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse. It had been set solidly on rock.” Jesus says that […]
Xavier Society for the Blind
‘Go forth to strange lands, learn to speak the language and tell the people about the word of God.’ – St. Francis Xavier The Xavier Society for the Blind was founded to provide Catholic religious material to people who are blind or visually impaired. The society began when a visually impaired woman named Margaret Coffey […]
Daily Gospel – MT 15:29-37
At that time: Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, went up on the mountain, and sat down there. Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he cured them. The crowds were amazed when they saw […]
Matthew 15:29-37
Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, went up on the mountain, and sat down there. Great crowds came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he cured them. The crowds were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, […]
Sr. Ita Ford
When Ita Ford decided to become a missionary sister, she was following in the footsteps of a distant relative. Bishop Francis Xavier Ford was one of Maryknoll’s fist missionaries to China, where he served from 1918 to 1952. He died in a Chinese prison. Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, Ita joined Maryknoll after […]
Daily Gospel – LK 10:21-24
Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by […]
Luke 10:21-24
Jesus said, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” This small section of Luke’s Gospel has what would be called a “very high […]
Weekday Gospels during Advent
The Scriptures read at Sunday Mass are not arbitrarily chosen by the pastor or parishioners. The Church has a three-year cycle of set readings In this cycle, Year A centers on Matthew’s Gospel, Year B on Mark, and Year C on Luke. Passages from John are interspersed in the sequence of Gospels every year. Yesterday, […]