Sunday Gospel Reflections

Do you want to be like Christ come Christmastime? Father and Annie unpack this week's readings, which communicate our need to actually be like God - because the Lord knows our hearts.

Father and Annie dive into the context of this week's readings, which is especially important for the passages we have. As we are now in the "glow" of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, we also seek to understand the...

Father and Annie discuss - in light of the readings this weekend - what it means to 'love someone' into being who God made them to be - that is, someone living in his image and after his likeness.

As we now, from a liturgical standpoint, begin to focus on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Father and Annie discuss the Sunday readings about the costs - and rewards - of discipleship.

Father and Annie look at the readings in a Christocentric fashion - first focusing on who Jesus is in order to understand Peter's mission (and ours) as the "overseer" who fortifies the city against the enemy.

Father and Annie, in looking at God's words through the Prophet Isaiah, discuss what it actually means to be part of the family of God and how "foreigners" are able to become part of that family.

Father and Annie look at the message given to both Elijah in the first reading and to Peter in the Gospel: To have faith in God, even when there is chaos all around.

Father and Annie explore the story behind the prophecy in Isaiah 55 with the call to "come to the water." In connecting that to the multiplication in the Gospel passage, we come to better understand the Eternal Covenant...

Father and Annie discuss the importance of Solomon in salvation history as the one who builds the Temple. And they unpack how Solomon prefigures Christ, who continues to speak of the Kingdom in parables.

Father and Annie take a tour through salvation history to understand the Kingdom of God through Solomon's words in the book of Wisdom and Jesus' "agricultural" parables.

Father and Annie discuss what the promise given by God through Isaiah would mean to the people of the time as they witnessed the faithlessness of their leaders - and, in light of the Gospel and in the light of Pentecost...

Father and Annie discuss the similarities between the people receiving the prophecy of Zechariah and those hearing from Jesus in the Gospel. Jesus came to bring true peace and freedom, which we have by living according...

Father and Annie, in light of all the readings this weekend, stress the importance of hospitality in the life of a Christian, who is baptized into Christ. By loving one another, we 'worship' God who is present in our...

Father and Annie discuss the readings in light of Pentecost a few weeks ago. God calls his people to speak the truth. Just as it happened to Jeremiah, Jesus says that we can expect persecution, but we should not be...

Father and Annie discuss what it means for the Israelites to be a kingdom of priests, and what is the nature of true sacrifice - and how all of what God promises in this regard is fulfilled in Christ and his Church.