Offering ourselves to Christ through daily prayer and service

Reflections on the readings for the Third Sunday of Lent (March 7, 2021): EX 20:1-17; PS 19:8,9,10,11; 1COR 1:22-25; JN 2:13-25 

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

“Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”  John 2:19

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

Let us choose to be for God…

Reflections on the readings for the Second Sunday of Lent (February 28, 2021): GN 22:1-2,9,10-13,15-18; PS 116:10,15,16-17,18-19;ROM 8:31-34; MK 9:2-10 

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

We must make the decision to cooperate with the will of God whether or not we understand it.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

‘You are Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church…’

Reflections on the readings for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter (February 22, 2021): 1 PT 5:1-4; PS 23:3,4,5,6; 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. 

Our Savior is the Head; and the Church is the mystical Body of Christ. All of us who are members are part of this Body.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

What would be your response to Jesus’ words? 

Reflections on the readings for the First Sunday of Advent (February 21, 2021): GN 9:8-15; PS 25:4-5,6-7,8-9; 1 PT 3:18-22; MK 1:12-15 

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

In ways great or small, we are tempted everyday to choose our own self-centered way, our own will. We are tempted to do what gives us the most pleasure or power, or otherwise comes between Christ and us.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

Lent opens for us a holy time of reconciliation and renewal

Reflections on the readings for Ash Wednesday (February 17, 2021): JL 2:12-18; PS 51:3-4,5-6,12-13,14,17; 2 COR 5:20–6:2; MT 6:1-6,16-18

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

Wherever we are on our Christian journey, we need to use each day, each hour, to express our gratitude for the gift of redemption.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

Today we see a beautiful miracle when Jesus touches and heals a leper  

Reflections on the readings for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (February 14, 2021): LV 13:1-2,44-46; PS 32:1-2,5,11; 1 COR 10:31 – 11:1; MK 1:40-45 

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

In today’s difficult times, we have come to value a simple touch and – when the danger is finally over – we should treasure it even more.

Topics: homily helps, Lent, Easter, Resurrection

 

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