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July 28, 2019, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings for today's Homily To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass

July 28, 2019, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Feast of St. Martha: July 29th is the feast of St. Martha of Bethany about whom we heard in the gospel last Sunday’s gospel. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus were friends and followers of Jesus who often offered hospitality to Jesus and his disciples when they traveling from Galilee to visit Jerusalem during the annual Jewish feasts. Martha is certainly the patron saint of any of us who find ourselves tasked with the cleaning, arranging, cooking, grilling and serving in order to be hospitable to guests. As we heard last Sunday, Jesus didn’t readily side with Martha in her complaint about Mary sitting down to listen to him rather than help in the kitchen, however, in another gospel passage he asks the question “who is greater, the one who sits at the table or the one who must serve? Jesus then identifies himself with those who serve and asks all who follow him to willingly and generously take the same role. So whenever we are working

We start with a riddle posed in our first reading from Deuteronomy.  Moses said: "For this command that I enjoin on you today is not too mysterious and remote for you. It is not up in the sky, that you should say, 'Who will go up in the sky to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?' Nor is it across the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and tell us of it, that we may carry it out?...”  The question is: “What is ‘it?" What’s not up in the sky or across the sea, but is very near to us?   We are given a clue, “It’s already in our mouths and in our hearts.” The answer is love of God and our neighbor.  It’s provided in our Gospel according to Luke: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”  

July 14 2019 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings for today's Homily  To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass

July 7 2019 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings for today's Homily To watch Mass in its entirety click The Mass