This week’s Vincentian Reflection …

THE SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THE KING
November 22, 2009
Gospel: (John 18:33-37)
Pilate said to Jesus, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?” Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for November 2, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: John 6:37-40
All Souls
This is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day. (John 6:40)
What a hope-filled promise Jesus makes here! Everyone who lives and dies in Christ will be raised up on the [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for November 1, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: Matthew 5:1-12
All Saints
Blessed are they … (Matthew 5:4)
It’s easy to read the beatitudes and see in them the lives of the saints. We could probably take a pencil and paper right now and make a quick list: poor in spirit—St. Francis; mourning—St. Monica; hungry for righteousness—St. Benedict; merciful—Mother Teresa; clean of heart—St. Maria [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for September 29, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: John 1:47-51
Feast of the Archangels
What thoughts were going through Nathanael’s mind as he sat under that fig tree? He obviously noticed what kind of tree it was. Clearly being familiar with Scripture, he was probably drawn to meditate on Micah 4:1-4, where the prophet promises that peoples and nations shall stream to “the [...]

This Week’s Vincentian Reflection …

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
September 27, 2009
Gospel: (Mark 9: 38-48)
John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to expel demons and we tried to stop him because he is not of our company.” Jesus said in reply: “Do not try to stop him. No man who performs a miracle using [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for September 15, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: John 19:25-27
Our Lady of Sorrows
If you have ever visited St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, you’ve probably spent a few moments admiring Michelangelo’s Pietà. And even if you’ve only seen a picture of this well-known sculpture, you know how poignantly it portrays Our Lady of Sorrows. A powerful meditation in marble, it shows Mary [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for August 24, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: John 1:45-51
St. Bartholomew
While walking to noon Mass in a busy city, you might see an evangelist carrying a sign that reads, “Repent.” Your route through the lunchtime throng may also take you past a soup kitchen. Looking at the people you pass, you’ll probably notice some wearing a Christian cross pin on their [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for August 23, 2009

Mass Reading & Meditation for August 23, 2009
Meditation: John 6:60-69
Joshua, the Old Testament leader commissioned by God to bring his people into the Promised Land, has much in common with Peter, the fisherman chosen by Jesus to lead his church.
Both men knew what it meant to follow God when the going got rough and others [...]

This Week’s Vincentian Reflection …

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
August 23, 2009
Gospel: (John 6: 60-69)
Many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”… Jesus said, “It is the Spirit that gives life…the words I have spoken to you are sprit and life.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe [...]

Mass Reading & Meditation for August 16, 2009

Catholic Meditations
Meditation: John 6:51-58
Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. (John 6:51)
Eternal life simply through eating the Eucharistic bread? Surely there must be more to it than this—and there is, but not in the way we might imagine. Every day, Jesus invites us: “Come, eat of my food, and drink of the wine I [...]