Today we see the urgency in Jesus’ mission of mercy to our world  

Reflections on the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time  (February 7, 2021): JB 7:1-4,6-7; PS 147:1-2,3-4,5-6; 1 COR 9:16-19,22-23; MK 1:29-39

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

Our Lord is a Messiah who saves His people, the whole world in fact, from the destruction of sin and death through His loving sacrifice.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

On this Feast of the Presentation, we recognize the unshakeable fidelity of the Holy Family to the will of Almighty God  

Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord  (February 2, 2021): 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. 

In time, Jesus would share His message of mercy, but it would be rejected by a great number of people...

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

The way the people responded to Him... 

Reflections on the readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 31, 2021): DT 18:15-20; PS 95:1-2,6-7,7-9; 1 COR 7:32-35; MK 1:21-28

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

The people who listened to Jesus in the synagogue at Capernaum and then saw the way He saved a man from an unclean spirit were impressed that our Lord was so different from...

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

God saved him one day on a long, dusty road

Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle (January 25, 2021): ACTS 22:3-16; 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. 

St. Paul would spend the rest of his life spreading Jesus’ message of salvation with people around the Mediterranean Sea. He preached to his fellow Jews, but had...   

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

God calls us to look at our lives and let Him change us with His love

Reflections on the readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 24, 2021): JON 3:1-5,10; PS 25:4-5,6-7,8-9; 1 COR 7:29-31; MK 1:14-20

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

What we think of as the ways of the world are not and never have been the ways of our Eternal Father.   

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

What it means to respond willingly to God’s call – wherever that may lead

Reflections on the readings for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (January 17, 2021): 1 SM 3:3-10,19; PS 40:2,4,7-8,8-9,10; 1 COR 6:13-15,17-20; JN 1:35-42

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

If we entrust our lives to His will, we, also, will be followers of Christ with all that it demands and all the blessings it brings.   

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

We, too, are beloved of the Father

Reflections on the readings for the Baptism of the Lord (January 10, 2021): IS 42:1-4,6-7; PS 29:1-2,3-4,9-10; ACTS 10:34:38; MK 1:7-11

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

Baptism is essential for us as Christians. It is the sacrament that invites us into the life of Christ and His Church. As sisters and brothers of our Savior, we, too, are beloved of the Father.   

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

St. John Neumann served God as a missionary to the people of America in a time of many hardships and prejudices

Reflections on the readings for the Memorial of St. John Neumann (January 5, 2021): 1 JN 4:7-10; PS 72:1-2,3-4,7-8; MK 6:34-44

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

“When Jesus saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things” (Mark 6:34).    

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

We honor St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, patron of Catholic schools  

Reflections on the readings for the Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (January 4, 2021): 1 JN 3:22-4:6; PS 1:7-8,1-12; MT 4:12-17,23-25

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

St. Elizabeth Seton had a great devotion to the Eucharist and a deep humility in living her faith in Christ.   

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

Today we observe the Epiphany, or revelation, of Christ to His people  

Reflections on the readings for the Epiphany of the Lord (January 3, 2021): IS 60:1-6; PS 72:1-2,7-8,10-11,12-13; EPH 3:2-3,5-6; MT 2:1-12

MISSIO offers “Preaching Mission,” as a homily help, providing connections to mission from the readings of Sundays, Feast Days and Holy Days. 

We know almost nothing about these mysterious strangers except that they traveled from the east following a star. Many later traditions have grown up about the Magi: that they were kings, that their names were Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, and, because of the three gifts, that there were exactly three of them.  

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection