Reflections on the readings for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (February 24, 2019): 1SM 26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; PS 103:1-2,3-4,6,8,10,12-13; 1COR 15:45-49; LK 6:27-38
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
The Gospel for this Sunday continues Jesus’ sermon on the plain.
Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter (February 22, 2019): 1PT 5:1-4; PS 23:1-3,4,5,6; MT 16:13-19
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
Today we honor the authority of the Church as represented by the Chair of St. Peter.
Reflections on the readings for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (February 17, 2019): JER 17:5-8; PS 1:1-2,3,4,6; 1COR 15:12,16-20; LK 6:17,20-26
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
Today’s Gospel according to St. Luke offers the important message of Christ’s sermon on the plain.
Reflections on the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (February 10, 2019): IS 6:1-2,3-8; PS 135:1-2,2-3,4-5,7-8; 1COR 15:1-11; LK 5:1-11
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
The story of the encounter of Jesus with His earliest disciples is rich in meaning for all of us.
Reflections on the readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (February 3, 2019): JER 1:4-5,17-19; PS 71:1-2,3-4,5-6,15-17; 1COR 12:31-13:13; LK 4:21-30
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
In the Gospel reading for this Sunday it seems that one minute the people listening to Him in the synagogue in Nazareth were impressed. The next minute they were trying to drive him out of town.
Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (February 2, 2019): MAL 3:1-4; PS 24:7,8,9,10; HEB 2:14-18; LK 2:22-40
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
Today we commemorate the first time Jesus was brought to the temple at Jerusalem.
Reflections on the readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 27, 2019): NEH 8:2-4,5-6,8-10; PS 19:8,9,10,15; 1COR 12:12-30; LK 1:1-4; 4:14-21
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
The Gospel for this Sunday shows us Jesus in the early days of public ministry.
Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (January 25, 2019): ACTS 22:3-16; PS 117:1-2; MK 16:15-18
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
“I am Jesus the Nazorean whom you are persecuting” (Acts 22:8). With these words, the life of Saul of Tarsus changed forever.
Reflections on the readings for the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (January 22, 2019): HEB 6:10-20; PS 111:1-2,4-5,9-10; MK 2:23-28
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
The U.S. bishops have declared this date a Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn.
Reflections on the readings for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 20, 2019): IS 62:1-5; PS 96:1-2,2-3,7-8,9-10; 1 COR 12:4-11; JN 2:1-11
MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days.
Jesus and Mary were among those relatives, friends and neighbors invited to a wedding feast at Cana in Galilee.
Remember someone you love and have lost with a Mass in the Missions in their memory.
