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The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 157)
God gives us a wealth of love and mercy. Are we putting it to good use and sharing it with others? We may decide to hide it and not let it grow unto others but that is not appreciating the gift God offers us. If we fail to see God's generous ways we will have a distorted view of God's gift to us and misunderstand what we need to do with them. Only when we know the Master can we multiply love and mercy like God does.
THEMES: Affirmation • Care • Change • Duty • Environment • Evangelize • Expand • Faith • Fear • Fidelity • Gift • Grow • Jealous • Journey • Joy • Law • Marriage • Mary • Mercy • Nurture • Prepare • Receive • Risk • Rosary • Saint • Share • Steward • Talent • Universal • Valor • Wait • Wisdom • Woman • Women • Work •
The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 154)
Are we seeking wisdom, the wisdom that points us to Jesus? To use our resources to shine our light on Christ? Jesus the bridegroom is approaching us to invite us into the heavenly wedding banquet but we must not waste our oil shining our lamps on worldly matters. If we do we will be foolish bridesmaids who will be absent in seeing Jesus in our lives and never know God. We must stay alert and always be vigilant for when Christ comes into our lives.
THEMES: • Bridegroom • Bridesmaid • Darkness • Death • Focus • Heaven • Hope • Joy • Knowledge • Lamp • Light • Negotiate • Oil • Pray • Prepare • Ready • Regret • Relationship • Saint • Temple • Time • Virgin • Wait • Warning • Wedding • Wisdom • Woke •
The Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 151)
How much different is our Christian portrayal to others than our actual inner thoughts, feelings and heart? Does our outward actions accurately show what is inside of us? Let us lead others to Christ by our way of living that authentically reflects our inner self that is at work serving Jesus.
THEMES: • Ancestors • Conflict • Correction • Ego • Eucharist • Exult • Family • Father • Honor • Humiliation • Humility • Hypocrisy • Lead • Mission • Peace • Pharisee • Portray • Priest • Relationship • Religion • Repent • Respect • Responsibility •
The Solemnity of All Saints
(Year A, Lectionary 667)
God is a communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If we join unto God we become part of that divine communion and we join together with our sisters and brothers in Christ. This includes people who have passed away but lived their lives set apart for God: holy. Saints. Let us strive to be live holy lives serving God and join the heavenly community others are already a part of.
THEMES: • Beatitudes • Communion • Community • Creation • Desire • Focus • Grace • Happiness • Healing • Heaven • History • Holy • Hope • Justice • Kingdom • Listen • Peace • Prayer • Relationship • Saint • Sight •
The Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 139)
Are we producing God's fruit or are we trying to seize God's gifts for ourselves? God's plan is to grace us with divinity for our benefit but we may be trying to control God instead for our own benefit. God warns us to appreciate what God is offering and giving us, to use it for good and God's purpose or we may end up losing them.
THEMES: • Anxiety • Blame • Change • Community • Grace • Harvest • Justice • Mercy • Oversee • Owner • Ownership • Passover • Peace • Prophet • Reconciliation • Reject • Return • Sin • Steward • Stone • Tenant • Thought • Vineyard •
The Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 136)
God our father invites us, his children, to join in the harvest. To enter into God's divine work. But how do we respond to God' grace? Can we grasp the call for repentance and turn back to God authentically? Instead of following our own intentions let us empty our pride and ego and join in the divine work in the vineyard.
THEMES: Action • Adam • Authority • Believe • Care • Change • Choice • Collective • Commitment • Compassion • Consistent • Conversion • Decision • Divine • Division • Eucharist • Fair • Grasp • Grow • Holy • Honesty • Humility • Intent • Judgment • Justice • Light • Love • Mercy • Mistake • Moral • Obedience • Parable • Preach • Pride • Priority • Punish • Relationship • Repent • Respond • Responsibility • Righteousness • Sin • Slave • Son • Suffering • Truth • Union • Unity • Vineyard • Work •
The Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 133)
God focuses on the well being of each of us. Because we bring our own limited perspectives we often cannot understand God's mercy, love and care for others. Where we compare others to our standards, God graces us all the same with dignity and attention. It is not for us to convince God to see things our way but instead start seeing and treating others as God does.
THEMES: Assumption • Commitment • Compassion • Complain • Covenant • Distraction • Entitlement • Envy • Evangelize • Expectation • Fair • Generosity • Gift • Grace • Grateful • Heaven • Hope • Idolatry • Immortality • Invitation • Joy • Justice • Kingdom • Labor • Landowner • Life • Love • Mercy • Mission • Parable • Pelagianism • Perspective • Prophecy • Relationship • Soul • Suffering • Understand • Work •
The Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 130)
When we close our perspectives to only ourselves we begin to hold others accountable to how they treat us. We seek vengeance and our form of justice and ignore our own sins and offenses. Only in broadening our sight to see God's mercy and forgiveness of our faults can we begin to offer the same to others. For we begin to understand that all of us sin yet are offered mercy by our Father in Heaven. Instead of hugging tight anger, wrath and hate let us instead hold tight to God who forgives us with loving mercy.
THEMES: Anger • Bond • Conflict • Courage • Covenant • Death • Debt • Ecology • Fear • Forgive • Freedom • Grace • Healing • Identity • Judgment • Justice • Love • Mercy • Neighbor • Obedience • Purpose • Reconciliation • Relationship • Remember • Sin • Unity •
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
(Year A, Lectionary 638)
Before Jesus was lifted up on the cross, like Moses lifted up the serpent, Christ first humbled himself and came down to humanity. Jesus emptied himself in order to rise in the cross all coming from God's love for us. As we pick up our crosses and move to be lifted up let us do so with love for God and others being the driving factor.
THEMES: Constantine • Cross • History • Light • Victory •
The Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 127)
The Triune God lives in community: God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are meant to join that communion with God and each other but when we sin and break that bond we need to work to restore that relationship. Jesus teaches us to approach each other in love and community to gather our sisters and brothers who are moving away from us so as to ensure salvation remains for all.
THEMES: Accountability • Anger • Approach • Authority • Church • Commandment • Community • Compassion • Conflict • Confrontation • Correction • Dialogue • Dispute • Division • Ecology • Ezekiel • Faith • Forgive • Judgment • Justice • Knot • Love • Mercy • Neighbor • Offend • Order • Prayer • Reconciliation • Relationship • Repent • Resolve • Sin • Struggle • Unity • Watchmen • Worship •
The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 124)
God's ways involves us struggling with carrying out God's mission. We may think we know what discipleship means but only upon following Jesus do we begin to experience the fear and pain of taking up our cross. But Jesus' message is one of accompanying us in our journey and offering us salvation, overcoming our cross with eternal life.
THEMES: Body • Choice • Cross • Devil • Dignity • Disciple • Dupe • Ecology • Ego • Follow • Frustration • Grace • Holy • Hunger • Jeremiah • Journey • Justice • Love • Metanoia • Offering • Peter • Phoebe • Politics • Pope • Prophet • Relationship • Resist • Rock • Sacrifice • Satan • Sin • Soul • St. Gregory the Great • St. Teresa of Avila • Struggle • Suffering • Thirst • Trust • Understand • Worship •
The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 121)
God's judgment and decisions are inscrutable. God allows us to be stewards and have positions of power but we must continuously be grateful and understand where those privileges and gifts come from. As long as we recognize God, God's glory, and God's grace bestowed upon us we can be faithful servants administering God's work in this world. Yet, in moving away from God we will fall and fail in our ministries by abusing our positions and no longer serving God but ourselves.
THEMES: Authority • Caesarea Philippi • Call • Choice • Church • Divine • Evangelize • Experience • Faith • Freedom • Grace • Hell • Hesed • History • Humility • Identity • Inscrutable • Key • Keys • Messiah • Ministry • Mystery • Peter • Pope • Power • Relationship • Repent • Resurrection • Revelation • Rock • Shebna • Sin • St. Augustine • St. Monica • St. Teresa of Calcutta • Steward • Transformation • Trust • Understand • Worry • Worship •
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 118)
Jesus is addressing us as he speaks to the Canaanite woman of great faith. He remains silent as the woman pleads for pity and healing for her tormented daughter in order to hear how we will respond to the cry of someone we label as an outsider. Often we lose patience with such people and even beg God to remove them away from us. But Christ is showing us that those 'others' deserve healing and love as well. How we can learn a great deal about faith from others and to extend the same compassion and mercy as Jesus did.
THEMES: Border • Boundary • Canaanite • Chosen • Conversion • Cooperate • Cross • Dialogue • Disciple • Division • Dog • Evangelize • Exclusion • Faith • Gather • Gentile • Grace • Healing • Inclusion • Initiate • Listen • Mercy • Ministry • Mission • Outsider • Paul • Persevere • Persistence • Perspective • Prayer • Prejudice • Reconciliation • Salvation • Silence • Understand • Unity • Welcome • Wind • Wisdom • Women •
The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Year A, Lectionary 622)
Elizabeth with John the Baptist in her womb were able to recognize the Word of God that Mary carried inside of her. As the true Ark of the Covenant, are we able to leap and cry out with joy at the sight of Mary in God's temple in heaven? Not only for the victory of Jesus and the Assumption of Mary but also for the hope that we too can participate in the salvation from God.
THEMES: Adam • Ark of the Covenant • Assumption • Battle • Blessing • Communion • Community • Death • Disciple • Equality • Eve • Faith • Fear • Follow • Grace • Heaven • History • Holy • Hope • Journey • Justice • Kingdom • Life • Listen • Love • Marriage • Mary • Mercy • Mission • Mother • Order • Prayer • Queen • Resurrection • Salvation • Seed • Serpent • Sin • Suffering • Temple • Vessel • Warrior • Water • Women •
The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 115)
God accompanies us throughout our journey. Jesus seperates his disciples from 'the crowd' and sends us on mission. But even from afar God is with us as Jesus prays for us as we sail past the rough seas. And even though during the dark 'fourth watch of the night' we may experience fear and distance from God, as long as we cry out to God, God will come to us. Even if we may not recognize Jesus at first we will come to realize that he is truly God and ready to save us.
THEMES: Aboriginal • Accompany • Adapt • Awe • Boat • Calm • Charity • Church • Community • Covenant • Darkness • Divine • Elijah • Encounter • Faith • Fear • Focus • Follow • Hope • Kingdom • Listen • Miracle • Mystery • Peace • Peter • Pray • Prayer • Providence • Refugees • Relationship • Revelation • Rite • Silence • Stable • Storm • Trust • Water •
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
(Year A, Lectionary 614)
In the transfiguration Jesus shows how humanity can be divine. If we follow Christ upwards then we will come in contact with God and we ourselves will shine forth our godly selves. Jesus shows us that this is possible amidst our daily lives. While we may be paralyzed by fear Jesus lifts us up and leads us forward in our journey down the mountain. Let us not forget to continue to listen to Christ as he instructs us what we need to do.
THEMES: Accompany • Body • Cross • Disciple • Divine • Doubt • Holy • Hope • Kingdom • Light • Listen • Peter • Remember • Revelation • Transfiguration •
The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 109)
To receive divine wisdom we have to acknowledge our limitations and be open to receive God. No matter our knowledge or possessions it cannot compare to God. When confronted with a kingdom to govern Solomon let go of his ego and ask for God's guidance: wisdom. In Jesus' parables, when confronted with a buried treasure or pearl of great price the people who find it let go of all they have. Only after letting go of worldly obsessions can we truly be rich in the treasures of heaven, God's Kingdom.
THEMES: Choice • Community • Discernment • Disciple • Environment • Good • Heaven • Hope • Hospitality • Journey • Joy • Judgment • Kingdom • Parable • Paul • Pearl • Poverty • Predestination • Prejudice • Rich • Sacrifice • Scribe • Seek • Sight • Solomon • Struggle • Surrender • Time • Transformation • Treasure • Trust • Understand • Wisdom • Worth •
The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 106)
God is patient, merciful and loving in judging us. It is not about God making a one time determination of whether we are good or bad. It's a process of God walking with us, guiding us, leading us to grow into the wheat we are meant to be. Although there are weeds in our lives, both within us and externally, we have to live past the evil with the help of Jesus to bring about the Kingdom of God. In the midst of evil, if we depend on Jesus and bring Christ into our situations, we are in fact bringing the Kingdom on Earth.
THEMES: Anger • Choice • Community • Conversion • Evil • Fruitful • Grace • Harvest • Hope • Judgment • Justice • Justification • Kingdom • Leaven • Love • Mercy • Mission • Mustard • Parable • Patience • Patient • Power • Prayer • Reconciliation • Relationship • Repent • Seed • Sin • Time • Weed • Wheat • Wisdom •
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 103)
God is generous and outpouring with his love for all of us. God's purpose is to reach everyone even if they don't allow God inside. We have to realize that all gifts come from God and if we allow God's love to live in us and pass through from us then God's love can reach everywhere. In this way, God's Kingdom will be felt on Earth.
THEMES: Care • Change • Church • Creation • Disciple • Environment • Evangelize • Focus • Generosity • Grace • Ground • Harvest • Hope • Humility • Justice • Kingdom • Listen • Love • Meditation • Parable • Patience • Proclaim • Purpose • Receive • Relationship • Revelation • Seed • Soil • Sow • Suffering • Understand • Wait • Word •
The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 100)
Although we experience division, suffering, and conflict, God brings and offers us peace. We must choose to bind ourselves to Jesus' yoke instead of earthly addictions that lead to sorrow. His yoke is actually easy because Jesus walks with us and it's tied down to the source of life. It's hard to learn and comprehend this through earthly logic but it makes sense when we approach it from a child-like dependency on God our Father.
THEMES: Approach • Child • Chosen • Commandment • Community • Control • Divine • Faith • Flesh • Gather • Holy Spirit • Holy Trinity • Hospitality • Humility • Invitation • Joy • Kingdom • Know • Knowledge • Learn • Love • Mercy • Obedience • Peace • Praise • Prayer • Prophet • Receive • Relationship • Remember • Repent • Rest • Resurrection • Revelation • Salvation • Sin • Spirit • Struggle • Suffering • Understand • Wisdom • Work • Yoke •
The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 97)
Are we welcoming God and people who carry God's Word? Can we see the divinity in people and offer our help as they continue on their journey and mission from God? It's not about being charitable to others with our money and resources but rather being hospitable to others because we see that they are God's children and bear God's image. In prioritizing God we can truly love and care for others.
THEMES: Accepting • Baptism • Blessing • Clergy • Cross • Death • Disciple • Ego • Elisha • Eucharist • Faith • Family • Fear • Generosity • Good • Help • History • Holy • Hospitality • Jonah • Journey • Justice • Kingdom • Laity • Love • Mission • Priority • Prophet • Receive • Relationship • Reward • Serve • Share • Sight • Sin • St. Therese of Lisieux • Suffering • Union • Welcome • Worship •
The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 94)
We are called to focus on our relationship with God and understand how greater it is than any fear we may have. Whatever may hold us back from accomplishing God's will is nonetheless insignificant compared to God. Instead of being consumed by darkness let us be consumed by the caring light of Christ. Our fears are limited and limiting while God is eternal.
THEMES: Adam • Anxiety • Care • Challenge • Conceal • Courage • Darkness • Death • Disciple • Fear • Forgive • Grace • Jeremiah • Judgment • Justice • Light • Mission • Oscar Romero • Prophet • Relationship • Revelation • Sin • Soul • Sparrow • Suffering • Thomas Moore • Trust • Truth •
The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 91)
God cares for us. God loves us. In God's deep compassion for us God seeks to reconcile us back to God. As Apostles of Christ we are meant to enter into that compassion for the rest of humanity. Jesus could have individually cured all the sick but God chose to do so as a community, as a Church, with the aim of being a light unto the nations. We are given authority but for God's purpose and not our own.
THEMES: Apostle • Chosen • Church • Community • Compassion • Disciple • Fail • Formation • Freedom • Identity • Inclusion • Journey • Lead • Mission • Power • Priest • Relationship • Remember • Sight • Trust • Unity • Vocation •
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi
(Year A, Lectionary 167)
For the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, we are called to focus on what it means that God gave God self to humanity. It calls back to God providing manna on the Exodus journey to the promised land, it calls to the incarnation of God in Jesus, to the Last Supper and to the Eucharist celebration since then. God's infinite sacrificing love for us is always available to us on our life journey back to God.
THEMES: Appreciate • Body • Communion • Community • Eucharist • Exodus • Family • Food • Holy Trinity • Journey • Justice • Love • Manna • Mass • Mystery • Participate • Presence • Remember • Sign • Unity •
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
(Year A, Lectionary 164)
The mystery of the Holy Trinity is an invitation to enter into a relationship with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Just as the Lord came down to Moses in a cloud and Jesus came down to us at the Incarnation and then the Holy Spirit came down upon the Church, so now God continues to meet us. Now we have been revealed the Triune God and we are meant to believe, worship and enter into divine communion.
THEMES: Advocate • Believe • Community • Dance • Divine • Faith • Father • Holy Spiirt • Holy Spirit • Holy Trinity • Joy • Judgment • Love • Mercy • Mission • Moses • Mystery • Peace • Redemption • Rejoice • Relationship • Salvation • St. Thomas Aquinas • Suffering • Understand •
Pentecost Sunday
(Year A, Lectionary 63)
God continues to breathe life into us now in the Holy Spirit. Where we tend to close ourselves away from God we need to open ourselves to the Spirit, open ourselves to forgiveness, and then let that forgiveness and Spirit flow outwards into the world.
THEMES: Ascension • Baptism • Breath • Breathe • Change • Church • Communicate • Communication • Community • Creation • Fear • Fire • Forgive • Gather • Gift • Grace • Grateful • Harvest • Healing • Heaven • History • Holy Spirit • Home • Kingdom • Love • Mary • Meeting • Mission • Moses • Passover • Peace • Pentecost • Power • Prayer • Recognize • Suffering • Thirst • Tongues • Tower of Babel • Trinity • Understand • Unity • Wind • Wisdom • Women •
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
(Year A, Lectionary 59)
Jesus always remained in relationship with God the Father. Prayer is a way to express that relationship and in praying Jesus is bringing us into communion with the Holy Trinity. Like the early church who awaited the Holy Spirit we too are to remain united in prayer awaiting God to guide us.
THEMES: Church • Disciple • Farewell • Gift • Glory • Holy Spirit • Life • Mary • Mission • Passion • Pray • Prayer • Priest • Relationship • Sky • Suffering • Wait •
The Ascension of the Lord
(Year A, Lectionary 58)
We can limit the significance of the Ascension of Jesus into Christ going up into heaven and no longer seeing him. But we are meant to see how we are opened up to a relationship with the Holy Trinity. We are offered to enter into communion with God by Jesus, fully human and fully divine, entering the divine realm. Uniting Heaven and Earth in the process. Like those early disciples we are not meant to stand looking up at the sky but to go on mission through the Holy Spirit of gathering others into this relationship with God.
THEMES: Art • Ascension • Baptism • Church • Disciple • Divine • Doubt • Forgive • Growth • Heaven • Holy Spirit • Holy Trinity • Hope • Incarnation • Kingdom • Mission • Presence • Priest • Resurrection • Revelation • Salvation • Theophilus • Transition • Unity • Witness • Worship •
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Year A, Lectionary 55)
God continues to accompany us in our journey back to God with the Advocate, Counselor, Intercessor, Paraclete, etc. The Holy Spirit enables us to enter into communion with God the Father and God the Son. Like when Philip went down to Samaria and helped gather the people into God's church. Today we are to continue attracting others to Jesus by inviting them with our hope-filled lives.
THEMES: Accompany • Baptism • Commandment • Communion • Confirmation • Death • Devil • Environment • Evangelize • Faith • Grace • History • Holy Spirit • Hope • Joy • Love • Mission • Mother • Orphan • Relationship • Resurrection • Sacrament • Scripture • Sight • Suffering • Unity •
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Year A, Lectionary 52)
We are called into communion with the Holy Trinity. Jesus emphasizes that he and God the Father are united and Christ invites us to join into this divine relationship. He offers us this heavenly life if we follow him to the Father because Jesus is the way, the life and the truth. In that communion we are meant to also cooperate with each other as the early Church did, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide them to overcome challenges so that the faith community can continue to grow.
THEMES: Accompany • Apostles • Care • Change • Chosen • Church • Communion • Community • Deacon • Disciple • Divinity • Encourage • Eucharist • Faith • Focus • Heaven • Holy Spirit • Holy Trinity • Journey • Lead • Life • Love • Marriage • Ministry • Moses • Mother • Peace • Perspective • Prayer • Priest • Reject • Relationship • Respond • Revelation • Sacrament • Salvation • Second Comng • Sight • Stone • Struggle • Temple • Trust • Truth • Unity • Way • Welcome • Witness • Women • Worry •
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Year A, Lectionary 49)
How attentive are we to Jesus? God is calling us back, to return, to repent. But that requires us to listen and be able to recognize God's voice. When we let Jesus lead us we may still face challenges and struggle but the focus should be on us having life in and with God. That is what makes life more abundant.
THEMES: Baptism • Bible • Community • Covenant • Encounter • Evangelize • Follow • Gate • History • Lead • Listen • Love • Parable • Peter • Preach • Proclaim • Recognize • Redemption • Relationship • Repent • Sacrifice • Share • Sheep • Shepherd • Sight • Silence • Suffering • Unity • Voice •
The Third Sunday of Easter
(Year A, Lectionary 46)
The 'Road to Emmaus' is often the path we are on. We are walking away from the faith in the Resurrected Christ. We have heard about Jesus being raised from the dead but we walk away from this truth. Although we are called disciples, students, followers of Jesus we choose to distance ourselves from God's plan. And yet, Jesus still pursues us and walks with us in our doubt and questioning. All we need to do is be open to receive Christ and listen to him so that we may recognize Jesus and return to God.
THEMES: Accept • Accompany • Adam • Believe • Church • Cleopas • Communion • Community • Disciple • Disguised • Eden • Emmaus • Encounter • Eucharist • Eve • Faith • Healing • History • Holy Spirit • Justice • Mass • Old Testament • Peace • Peter • Prophecy • Receive • Recognize • Relationship • Remember • Resurrection • Salvation • Scripture • Sight • St. Phoebe • Storm • Suffering • Understand • Walk • Witness • Women •
The Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy
(Year A, Lectionary 43)
While many focus on "doubting Thomas," the other aspects we need to ponder on is the importance of the church community, the peace Jesus offers us and the presence of Jesus' wounds with his resurrected body. We require faith that Jesus is resurrected, faith in God's peace even amidst our "wounds," and faith in all of us united as a church in Christ's body.
THEMES: Baptism • Believe • Breathe • Charity • Church • Communion • Community • Creation • Disciple • Doubt • Eucharist • Evangelize • Faith • Fear • Forgive • Grateful • Healing • Holy Spirit • Hope • Joy • Justice • Love • Mass • Mercy • Mission • Peace • Reconciliation • Relationship • Resurrection • Scar • Share • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Temple • Thankful • Thomas • Trust • Worship • Wounds •
Easter Sunday the Resurrection of the Lord
(Year A, Lectionary 42)
In our journey following Jesus we pass through Calvary and the cross and we may be tempted to lose Jesus in the empty tomb. We can get stuck in not understanding what resurrection really means for us and want to dwell on the death but we are called to continue on the journey where resurrection leads us to.
THEMES: Ark of the Covenant • Church • Community • Courage • Creation • Death • Disciple • Easter • Eden • Empty • Enchantment • Eucharist • Faith • Fear • Focus • Follow • Gospel • Grace • Hell • Hide • History • Hope • Journey • Joy • Life • Mary of Magdala • Miracle • Mission • Myth • Peace • Praise • Proclaim • Rejoice • Resurrection • Rock • Sabbath • Sadness • Salvation • Sight • Sin • Testify • Tomb • Truth • Unity • Victory • Witness • Women •
Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil
(Year A, Lectionary 41)
We await the light amidst the darkness in this Easter Vigil. We hear the history of God among us through scripture and how we enter in the new reality of resurrection. As we approach the darkness of the tomb we are introduced to the light of resurrection and the new life in the risen Christ. We are to praise God and move forward without fear having met Jesus.
THEMES: Abraham • Angel • Baptism • Choice • Covenant • Creation • Cross • Darkness • Death • Eucharist • Evangelize • Fear • Focus • History • Isaiah • Journey • Kingdom • Light • Love • Martin Luther King Jr. • Mary of Magdala • Mask • Mission • Moses • Proclaim • Resurrection • Salvation • Sin • Stone • Suffering • Teach • Tomb • Women •
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
(Year A, Lectionary 40)
As Jesus hanged on the cross we are meant to meditate on this event. On how we contribute to his crucifixion with our actions of hate and with our failure to act for justice. On how God willingly came to serve us all the way to the cross, all the while offering love and forgiveness. We all journey to the cross with Jesus but we can either be condemning him, preoccupied with his possessions, or at the side of the cross with him.
THEMES: Accompany • Adam • Care • Community • Contemplate • Control • Covenant • Creation • Cross • Death • Disciple • Economy • Eve • Faith • Fear • Follow • Forgive • Guilt • Healing • Helpless • History • Holy Spirit • Hope • Journey • Joy • Justice • Kingdom • Lamb • Light • Love • Mercy • Naked • Nonviolence • Passion • Peace • Prayer • Priest • Prophecy • Racism • Reconciliation • Repent • Resurrection • Sacrifice • Salvation • Silence • Simon of Cyrene • Sin • Suffering • Temple • Truth • Water • Wisdom • Witness • Worth •
Holy Thursday
(Year A, Lectionary 39)
The Easter Triduum begins with Jesus washing our feet to show us that just as God came down to our dirt to cleanse us, we too must follow in serving others with great humility. Before feasting with Jesus at the Last Supper we must help one another and come together as a church community to properly experience the Eucharist.
THEMES: Accept • Adam • Approach • Communion • Community • Conversion • Covenant • Death • Disciple • Eden • Eucharist • Eucharistic • Feet Washing • Foot Washing • Gift • Grace • Humility • Journey • Joy • Kingdom • Lamb • Lead • Lent • Love • Mercy • Mission • Neighbor • Passover • Peter • Power • Presence • Priest • Resist • Sacrifice • Salvation • Serve • Sin • Slave • Symbol • Teach • Thanksgiving • Unity • Water • Welcome •
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
(Year A, Lectionary 38)
We are always journeying with Jesus but we can either be like the crowds praising Christ as he enters Jerusalem or like the crowds chanting to crucify God. We are moving with Jesus to Calvary but we can either be bystanders from afar or carrying Jesus' cross with him like Simon the Cyrenian. We are meant to insert ourselves and be active participants in the Passion story for Palm Sunday.
THEMES: Barabbas • Bethphage • Blame • Borrow • Care • Choice • Community • Cross • Disciple • Disturb • Donkey • Exodus • Exultation • Forsaken • Gethsemane • Grace • Happiness • Holy • Humility • Joseph • Joseph (OT) • Journey • Judas • Kingdom • Liberation • Losers • Matthew • Palm • Passion • Passover • Praise • Prayer • Prophecy • Recognize • Relationship • Resurrection • Sin • Suffering • Todah • Trial • Trinity • Wait • Winners •
The Fifth Sunday of Lent
(Year A, Lectionary 34)
How much are our lives consumed with death? Martha and Mary faced their brother Lazarus' death but they held on to God, Jesus, to live beyond their predicament. In doing so, Jesus the source of life gave them reason to continue living. Are we holding on to the source of life?
THEMES: Baptism • Choice • Compassion • Creation • Cross • Death • Encounter • Environment • Faith • Flesh • Friendship • Holy Spirit • Hope • Lazarus • Lent • Life • Martha • Miracle • Patience • Prayer • Reconciliation • Relationship • Resurrection • Silence • Suffering • Thomas • Wept •
The Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Year A, Lectionary 31)
The readings for this Sunday aren't primarily about blindness. They are about SEEING as God sees. Yes, to not remain in darkness but more about having Jesus as our light source in order to see the world anew as God sees. Only then can we be transformed in our daily lives as we interact with one another.
THEMES: Change • Closeness • Conversion • Creation • David • Dignity • Faith • Grace • Healing • Humility • Joy • Judgment • Justice • Lent • Life • Light • Martyr • Miracle • Parents • Retribution • Shepherd • Sight • Sin • St. Joseph • St. Patrick • Suffering • Unity •
The Third Sunday of Lent
(Year A, Lectionary 28)
God is so mighty that God can make water flow from what we hold no value: a rock or an outsider like the Samaritan woman at the well. This water which God offers is Spirit and once we become a conduit it can flow from us and reach others so that they too can come and have life in God.
THEMES: Addiction • Baptism • Boundary • Community • Conversation • Conversion • Discipleship • Encounter • Eucharist • Evangelize • Faith • Grace • History • Holy Spirit • Hope • Journey • Judgment • Lent • Love • Marriage • Mission • Presence • Reflection • Relationship • Resolve • Rules • Salvation • Samaritan • Seek • Shame • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Thirst • Water • Wedding • Well • Witness • Women •
The Second Sunday of Lent
(Year A, Lectionary 25)
Jesus gave a glimpse of his glory and divinity to his followers at the Transfiguration. But first Jesus led them up for private time (prayer) with God and then led them back down to earth to continue their journey and work. Are we, however, letting ourselves be led like Abraham by God to a promised land we do not know but can only hope for? Can we make time for God to illuminate the path we must take?
THEMES: Abraham • Blessing • Call • Community • Discipleship • Elijah • Exodus • Faith • Fear • Focus • Grace • Holy • Hope • Interruption • Journey • Lent • Light • Listen • Love • Mission • Moses • Mountain • Neighbor • Peter • Prayer • Revelation • Salvation • Suffering • Theophany • Transfiguration • Transformation • Vocation • Works •
The First Sunday of Lent
(Year A, Lectionary 22)
How are we to face temptations this Lent? By continually relying on God just as Jesus always did. Even if we were to grasp like Adam and Eve to decide for ourselves, we must return back to God for guidance. So while it may seem we're in a desert, if we trust in God we will be ministered by angels as well.
THEMES: Adam • Almsgiving • Arrogance • Battle • Choice • Community • Cross • Demon • Desert • Devil • Eden • Ego • Eve • Exodus • Faith • Fast • Gift • Grace • Holy • Inequality • Joy • Justice • Kingdom • Lent • Mission • Obedience • Power • Prayer • Relationship • Remember • Sin • Suffering • Temptation • Time • Transformation • Worship •
Ash Wednesday
(Year A, Lectionary 219)
Ash Wednesday can become mechanical and routine. We have ashes placed on our foreheads and we begin to think about what we may need to give up. BUT it's so much more than that. The scripture readings today are calling us to pray, fast and almsgiving. But there's a hidden meaning behind these besides just not eating or giving away money. Tune in to a collection of reflections from various Christian experts to grow in the faith. Especially for this Lent season.
THEMES: Almsgiving • Ash • Baptism • Blame • Cain • Change • Community • Crisis • Death • Environment • Fast • Focus • Forgive • Holy • Hope • Humility • Journey • Justice • Lent • Love • Praise • Prayer • Reconciliation • Reflect • Remember • Repent • Resurrection • Sin • Transformation •
The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 79)
DON'T THINK that turning the other cheek is about letting yourself be walked on. Or putting up with abuse. It's not! Yes, some may say it's about confronting injustice or standing up to abusive people. BUT IT'S SO MUCH MORE. The readings for the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time are calling us to be holy like God is holy. We are called to be like God. And if God is love then we must reflect love too. It's HARD to turn the other cheek. It's hard to go that extra mile. Much less to love and pray for our enemies. But that's what Jesus calls us to do. Because Christ did turn the other cheek. Christ did walk that extra mile. Christ did pray and love.
THEMES: Commandment • Compassion • Correct • Enemy • Follow • Forgive • Generosity • History • Holy • Justice • Love • Mandela • Neighbor • Non-violence • Perfection • Politics • Prayer • Reconciliation • Temple • Unity • Violence •
The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 76)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Abolish • Adultery • Anger • Bible • Charity • Choice • Commandment • Decision • Depth • Discern • Encourage • Extreme • Freedom • Fulfill • Heaven • History • Holy • Holy Spirit • Journey • Lust • Mercy • Oath • Peace • Pharisee • Reconciliation • Reflection • Relationship • Salvation • Secret • Sermon on the Mount • Sin • Truth • Wisdom •
The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 73)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Anger • Care • Charity • Choice • Community • Depth • Discipleship • Ego • Emotion • Fulfillment • Happiness • Hope • Humility • Hunger • Justice • Light • Love • Matthew • Mercy • Miracle • Mission • Open • Power • Prayer • Preserve • Sacrifice • Salt • St. Paul • Transformation • Works •
The Presentation of the Lord
(Year A, Lectionary 524)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Anna • Divinity • Expectation • Focus • Gift • Hope • Humanity • Justice • Light • Liturgy • Love • Mary • Mass • Patience • Prayer • Prepare • Priest • Priority • Prophecy • Prophet • Recognize • Return • Sacrifice • Sight • Simeon • Suffering • Temple • Transformation •
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 70)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Addiction • Beatitudes • Blessing • Boast • Cross • Dialogue • Disciple • Exodus • Focus • Freedom • Happiness • Happy • Heart • History • Holy • Humility • Hunger • Joy • Justice • Lowly • Moses • Poverty • Translation • Wisdom •
The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 67)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Baptism • Call • Church • Community • Conversion • Creation • Darkness • Disciple • Division • Encounter • Exile • Follow • Gather • Gospel • Healing • History • Hope • Kingdom • Light • Love • Messiah • Mission • Prison • Prophecy • Prophet • Repent • Scripture • Sent • Sin • St. Paul • Suffering • Unity •
The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Year A, Lectionary 64)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Baptism • Blessing • Called • Chosen • Church • Communion • Community • Complacent • Covenant • Creation • Darkness • Desert • Disciple • Divine • Dove • Ego • Engage • Faith • Gather • Healing • History • Holy • Holy Spirit • Hope • Humility • Identity • John the Baptist • Justice • Lamb • Light • Martin Luther King Jr. • Martyr • Mission • Ordinary Time • Paul • Peace • Popularity • Power • Proclaim • Prophet • Recognize • Repent • Revelation • Sacrifice • Salvation • Season • Servant • Sight • Sign • Sin • Solidarity • Suffering • Testimony • Unity • Vocation • Witness •
The Epiphany of the Lord
(Year A, Lectionary 20)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Epiphany of the Lord by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Birth • Call • Change • Christmas • Community • Courage • Cross • Curiosity • Darkness • David • Death • Devil • Disciple • Division • Encounter • Environment • Epiphany • Exodus • Faith • Focus • Follow • Gather • Gift • Grace • Growth • Herod • History • Hope • Humility • Incarnation • Inclusion • Interpretation • Jealous • Journey • Kingdom • Light • Love • Magi • Mary • Mission • Power • Proclaim • Prophecy • Refugees • Repent • Revelation • Salvation • Science • Seek • Shepherd • Sight • Signs • Solomon • Star • Truth • Unity • Wisdom •
The Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
(Year A, Lectionary 18)
Prepare for Sunday's Mass readings for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Appreciate • Astonish • Blessing • Commandment • Cooperate • David • Disciple • Discipleship • Eve • Faith • Heart • History • Hope • Incarnation • Journey • Love • Mary • Mission • Mother • Name • Parents • Peace • Ponder • Redemption • Relationship • Salvation • Shepherd • Sight • Time • Violence • Vocation •
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Day
(Year A, Lectionary 16)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Day by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: • Angel • Baby • Bread • Child • Christmas • Community • Covenant • Creation • Darkness • Divine • Division • Encounter • Faith • Focus • Gift • Grace • History • Homeless • Hope • Incarnation • John the Baptist • Journey • Joy • Life • Light • Love • Meaning • Mission • Nicodemus • Night • Peace • Poverty • Power • Prayer • Priority • Reject • Relationship • Revelation • Sight • Silence • St. Nicholas • Temple • Tradition • Unity • Word •
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass at Dawn
(Year A, Lectionary 15)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass at Dawn by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Angel • Birth • Covenant • David • Evangelize • Kingdom • Nativity • Shepherd •
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Night
(Year A, Lectionary 14)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Night by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Angel • Baby • Birth • Caesar • Change • Child • Christmas • Darkness • David • Eucharist • Expectation • Focus • Grateful • Hope • Humility • Incarnation • Joseph • Journey • Joy • Kingdom • Light • Love • Mary • Peace • Poverty • Power • Prepare • Prophet • Relationship • Revelation • Risk • Salvation • Shepherd • Sight • Sin • St. Joseph • Trust • Unity • Welcome •
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Vigil Mass
(Year A, Lectionary 13)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Vigil Mass by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Adoration • Appreciate • Christmas • Covenant • David • Faith • Family • Grateful • Holy • Hope • Incarnation • Marriage • Mary • Relationship • Sight • St. Joseph • Trust • Unity •
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Year A, Lectionary 10)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Ahaz • Community • Darkness • Divorce • Dream • Faith • Fear • Fulfillment • Gift • Gospel • History • Honor • Incarnation • Isaiah • Joseph • Kingdom • Light • Marriage • Mary • Mission • Paul • Prayer • Prophet • Purpose • Receive • Receptive • Salvation • Sight • Sign • St. Joseph • Struggle • Struggles • Trust •
The Third Sunday of Advent
(Year A, Lectionary 7)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Third Sunday of Advent by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Advent • Deaf • Desert • Disability • Doubt • Environment • Expectation • Focus • Healing • Hear • History • Hope • Incarnation • Inclusion • John the Baptist • Joy • Judgment • Justice • Mercy • Patience • Peace • Power • Prepare • Prophet • Question • Relationship • Seek • Sight • Speech • Struggle • Unity • Welcome •
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Year A, Lectionary 689)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Accompany • Battle • Choice • Eve • Gideon • Grace • Holy Spirit • Immaculate • Listen • Mary • Mercy • Prophet • Question • Sin • Witness •
The Second Sunday of Advent
(Year A, Lectionary 4)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the Second Sunday of Advent by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Abraham • Acknowledge • Advent • Competition • Creation • David • Desert • Exile • Exodus • Faith • Gift • Holy Spirit • Hope • Hypocrite • Incarnation • John the Baptist • Judgment • Kingdom • Knowledge • Mature • Messiah • Peace • Pharisee • Prayer • Prepare • Prophet • Repent • Resilience • Sin • Tree • Unity • Wisdom •
The First Sunday of Advent
(Year A, Lectionary 1)
Prepare for the Mass readings for the First Sunday of Advent by meditating on reflections and homilies on video, images, text, and audio sources.
THEMES: Adam • Advent • Baptism • Coming • Community • Creation • Death • Division • Faith • Family • Focus • Gather • Hope • Incarnation • John the Baptist • Judgment • Light • Love • Mountain • Noah • Nonviolence • Prayer • Prepare • Priority • Prophet • Recognize • Repent • Respond • Revelation • Sloth • Wait • Wisdom • Worship •
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Year: C, Lectionary: 162)
THEMES: Community • Contradiction • Covenant • Criminal • Cross • David • Death • Divinity • Gather • History • Kingdom • Love • Mission • Paradise • Power • Relationship • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Welcome •
The Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 159)
THEMES: Adversity • Church • Community • Death • Destruction • Disciple • End • Endurance • Eternity • Faith • Fear • Focus • Follow • Grateful • Holy Spirit • Hope • Idleness • Justice • Listen • Love • Martyr • Persevere • Prepare • Prophet • Recognize • Respond • Resurrection • Revelation • Sign • Suffering • Temple • Wisdom • Work •
The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 156)
THEMES: Ambition • Body • Celibacy • Community • Death • Disciple • Faith • Foundation • Grateful • Heaven • History • Hope • Journey • Justice • Marriage • Martyr • Mother • Parent • Resurrection • Sadducees • St. Paul • Suffering • Tradition •
The Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 153)
THEMES: Abraham • Acknowledge • Conversion • Creation • Evil • Gather • Grace • Healing • Jericho • Journey • Love • Mercy • Pursue • Reconciliation • Redefine • Relationship • Repent • Salvation • Seek • Sight • Sin • Transformation • Wealth • Welcome • Zacchaeus •
The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 150)
THEMES: Battle • Charity • Commandment • Community • Confess • Ego • Faith • Forgive • Humility • Hypocrite • Journey • Judgment • Justice • Justification • Libation • Listen • Love • Mercy • Pharisees • Poverty • Prayer • Pride • Publican • Rationalize • Relationship • Sin • Suffering • Virtue • Welcome •
The Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 147)
THEMES: Amalek • Battle • Church • Community • Cross • Encourage • Eternity • Faith • Focus • Hope • Joshua • Judgment • Mission • Moses • Persevere • Persistent • Prayer • Transformation • Urgency • Violence • Widow •
The Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 144)
THEMES: Community • Cross • Elisha • Entitlement • Exclude • Faith • Gentile • Gift • Gospel • Grateful • Healing • Hope • Humility • Inclusion • Journey • Leper • Naaman • Patience • Preach • Pride • Recognize • Resurrection • Salvation • Samaritan • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Thankful • Unity • Weakness • Welcome • Worship •
The Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 141)
THEMES: Care • Community • Disciple • Environment • Faith • Fidelity • Gift • History • Hope • Humility • Justice • Love • Martyr • Ministry • Mission • Ordination • Power • Praise • Prayer • Remind • Serve • Sight • Suffering • Works •
The Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 138)
THEMES: Care • Choice • Community • Complacent • Discipline • Distraction • Exclude • Fear • Focus • Forgive • Heaven • Hell • Hope • Judgment • Justice • Listen • Love • Money • Neighbor • Poverty • Prepare • Priority • Prophet • Resurrection • Sight • Sin • Solidarity • Suffering • Virtue • Wealth •
The Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 135)
THEMES: Assessment • Choice • Complacency • Crisis • Environment • Exploit • Fear • Focus • Gift • Heaven • Inclusion • Justice • Law • Love • Money • Neighbor • Parable • Persevere • Persistent • Poverty • Power • Prayer • Priority • Prophet • Prudent • Relationship • Respond • Rest • Sabbath • Salvation • Seek • Serve • Shrewd • Soul • Steward • Trust • Virtue • Wealth • Women •
The Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 132)
THEMES: Anger • Community • Compassion • Control • Courage • Covenant • Divine • Entitlement • Environment • Envy • Find • Forgive • Grace • Heaven • Holy • Idolatry • Journey • Joy • Judgment • Justice • Lost • Love • Mercy • Mission • Moses • Patience • Paul • Peace • Pride • Prodigal • Reconciliation • Relationship • Repent • Restore • Salvation • Seek • Sheep • Sin • Unity • Virtue •
The Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 129)
THEMES: Accounting • Community • Conversion • Cost • Cross • Detachment • Disciple • Ecology • Family • Follow • Grace • Happiness • Hate • Holy Spirit • Justice • Kingdom • Knowledge • Labor • Love • Neighbor • Paul • Peace • Possessions • Priority • Relationship • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Union • Wisdom •
The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 126)
THEMES: Almsgiving • Ambition • Charity • Church • Community • Covenant • Detachment • Economy • Effect • Ego • Encounter • Environment • Equality • Eucharist • Focus • Gift • Grace • Heaven • History • Honor • Hospitality • Humility • Intent • Invite • Judgment • Kingdom • Love • Mass • Meal • Neighbor • Parable • Pharisees • Pride • Relationship • Sacrifice • Salvation • Sight • St. Benedict of Nursia • St. Ignatius of Loyola • Status • Temple • Vocation • Wedding •
The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 123)
THEMES: Assess • Challenge • Commitment • Community • Discipline • Family • Forgive • Freedom • Gate • Gather • Grace • Heaven • Hell • Holy Spirit • Hope • Inclusion • Journey • Kingdom • Mercy • Participate • Punishment • Reconciliation • Repent • Responsibility • Salvation • Sin • Striving • Suffering • Understand • Unity • Vocation •
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 120)
THEMES: Child • Church • Commitment • Community • Cross • Disciple • Division • Environment • Faith • Family • Fire • Focus • Holy Spirit • Humility • Jeremiah • Judgment • Justice • Love • Martyr • Peace • Persevere • Prayer • Prepare • Prophecy • Prophet • Receive • Religion • Sacrifice • Saint • Salvation • Seperation • Trust • Truth • Unity •
The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 117)
THEMES: Abraham • Accept • Almsgiving • Anticipation • Art • Awake • Awareness • Communicate • Community • Confidence • Courage • Death • Division • Exodus • Faith • Fear • Gift • Grace • Grateful • Happiness • Heaven • History • Hope • Journey • Joy • Judgment • Kingdom • Liberation • Light • Love • Mercy • Mission • Peace • Power • Prayer • Prepare • Priority • Promise • Purgatory • Reason • Risk • Sacrifice • Salvation • Servant • Serve • Share • Slave • Steward • Suffering • Trust • Urgency • Vigilant • Wealth • Wedding •
The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 114)
THEMES: Anxiety • Balance • Community • Creation • Death • Disciple • Economy • Ego • Eternity • Focus • Fool • Generosity • Greed • Grief • Heaven • Hope • Joy • Language • Life • Love • Neighbor • Paul • Possessions • Poverty • Priority • Qoheleth • Reconciliation • Relationship • Repent • Share • Sin • Suffering • Vanity • Vice • Wealth • Wisdom • Worry • Worship •
The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 111)
THEMES: Abraham • Baptism • Circumcision • Communication • Compassion • Exodus • Faith • Forgive • Journey • Justice • Kingdom • Learn • Manna • Mercy • Neighbor • Our Father • Persistence • Persistent • Prayer • Relationship • Temptation • Trust •
The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 108)
THEMES: Abraham • Community • Covenant • Cross • Disciple • Distraction • Encounter • Evangelize • Faith • Focus • Friendship • Gift • Hospitality • Identity • Journey • Listen • Love • Martha • Meal • Paul • Peace • Praise • Prayer • Priority • Relationship • Rest • Revelation • Share • Sight • Suffering • Teresa of Avila • Trinity • Welcome • Welcoming • Women • Worry •
The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 105)
THEMES: Abuse • Care • Commandment • Compassion • Concern • Creation • Divine • Division • Environment • Eternal Life • Fear • Healing • Heaven • Help • Justice • Love • Mercy • Moral • Music • Neighbor • Presence • Relationship • Salvation • Samaritan • Seek • Sight • Sin • Solidarity •
The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 102)
THEMES: Battle • Blessing • Boast • Call • Church • Circumcision • Comfort • Communication • Community • Creation • Cross • Culture • Disciple • Encounter • Evangelize • Evil • Focus • Glory • Greet • Healing • Hope • Journey • Joy • Justice • Kingdom • Love • Mission • Moses • Motivation • Paul • Peace • Plan • Prayer • Priest • Providence • Rejoice • Relationship • Repent • Sent • Sight • St. Paul • Suffering • Transformation • Trust •
The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 99)
THEMES: Change • Choice • Commandment • Commitment • Cross • Detachment • Discern • Disciple • Ego • Elijah • Elisha • Focus • Follow • Freedom • Jerusalem • Journey • Joy • Love • Luke • Neighbor • Paul • Priority • Revelation • Sacrifice • Struggle • Surrender • Trust • Value •
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Year: C, Lectionary: 169)
THEMES: Abundance • Appreciate • Banquet • Battle • Church • Communion • Community • Covenant • David • Desire • Elisha • Environment • Eucharist • Eucharistic • Exodus • Feed • Food • Freedom • Grateful • Kingdom • Liturgy • Manna • Meal • Melchizedek • Neighbor • Offering • Passover • Poor • Priest • Priesthood • Proclaim • Reconciliation • Remember • Repetition • Sacrifice • Salvation • Scarcity • Serve • Sin • Suffering •
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (Year: C, Lectionary: 166)
THEMES: Belief • Chosen • Communion • Community • Creation • Cross • Faith • Grace • Healing • History • Holy Spirit • Holy Trinity • Interpret • Knowledge • Love • Mercy • Ministry • Mystery • Reconciliation • Relationship • Revelation • Salvation • Sin • Trinity • Understand • Unity • Wisdom •
Pentecost Sunday (Year: C, Lectionary: 63)
THEMES: Ascension • Baptism • Breath • Breathe • Change • Church • Communicate • Communication • Community • Creation • Fear • Fire • Forgive • Gather • Gift • Grace • Grateful • Harvest • Healing • Heaven • History • Holy Spirit • Holy Spirt • Home • Kingdom • Language • Lead • Love • Mary • Meeting • Mission • Moses • Passover • Peace • Pentecost • Power • Prayer • Recognize • Salvation • Suffering • Thirst • Tongues • Tower of Babel • Trinity • Understand • Unity • Wind • Wisdom • Women •
The Ascension of the Lord (Year: C, Lectionary: 58)
THEMES: Angel • Ascension • Beginning • Body • Cloud • Connected • Disciple • Divine • End • Exodus • Forgive • Growth • Heaven • Holy Spirit • Hope • Journey • Joy • Kingdom • Love • Mercy • Mission • Peace • Priest • Sacred • Sacrifice • Sight • Sin • Temple • Transfiguration • Witness • Worship •
The Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year: C, Lectionary: 61)
THEMES: Ascension • Blasphemy • Church • Connected • Divine • Focus • Grateful • Heaven • Holy Spirit • Judgment • Kingdom • Martyr • Peace • Recognize • Revelation • Sight • St. Stephen • Thankful • Trinity • Truth • Unity • Vision • Works •
The Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year: C, Lectionary: 57)
THEMES: Baptism • Church • Circumcision • Communion • Courage • Creation • Divinity • Eucharist • Farewell • Food • Forgive • Generosity • Gospel • Guide • Heaven • Heresy • History • Holy • Holy Spirit • Home • Interpretation • Jerusalem • Kingdom • Light • Love • Mary • Mission • Paul • Peace • Prayer • Prepare • Renewal • Revelation • Sacrament • Temple • Tradition • Trinity • Unity • Wall •
The Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year: C, Lectionary: 54)
THEMES: Believe • Church • Commandment • Community • Covenant • Creation • Darkness • Death • Disciple • Earth • Environment • Eucharist • Evangelize • Follow • Glory • Heaven • History • Judas • Kingdom • Love • Marriage • New • Paul • Relationship • Restoration • Resurrection • Revelation • Sacrifice • Second Comng • Sin • Struggle • Suffering •
The Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year: C, Lectionary: 51)
THEMES: Abraham • Authority • Blasphemy • Church • Comfort • Conversion • Divinity • Evangelize • Faith • Fear • Focus • Follow • Gather • Gospel • Grace • Hanukkah • Heaven • Hope • Identity • Lamb • Lead • Listen • Love • Martyr • Messiah • Mother • Obedience • Passover • Paul • Persecution • Poverty • Power • Prayer • Relationship • Resurrection • Revelation • Serve • Sheep • Shepherd • Suffering • Sukkot • Temple • Unity • Vocation • Voice • Water •
The Third Sunday of Easter (Year: C, Lectionary: 48)
THEMES: Accept • Change • Church • Collaboration • Community • Darkness • Death • Disciple • Ego • Encounter • Eucharist • Evangelize • Faith • Fear • Feed • Fish • Follow • Food • Forgive • Gather • Grace • Guilt • Hope • Hunger • Joy • Lead • Light • Liturgy • Love • Mission • Patience • Peter • Praise • Priority • Recognize • Reconciliation • Repent • Resurrection • Revelation • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Teach • Time • Tomb • Transformation • Trust • Unity • Violence •
The Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of Divine Mercy (Year: C, Lectionary: 45)
THEMES: Apostle • Authority • Change • Church • Death • Doubt • Faith • Fear • Forgive • Grace • Holy • Holy Spirit • Hope • Isolation • Journey • Life • Love • Mercy • Miracle • Mission • Peace • Reconciliation • Relationship • Resurrection • Revelation • Sacrament • Saint • Science • Seek • Shame • Sight • Sin • St. Maria Faustina Kowalska • Suffering • Thomas • Touch • Uncertainty • Unity • Wound • Wounds •
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Year: C, Lectionary: 37)
THEMES: Community • Covenant • Cross • Death • Follow • Forgive • Herod • History • Holy Week • Hope • Humility • Innocent • Journey • Justice • Kingdom • Last Supper • Lent • Limit • Losers • Passion • Prodigal • Prophecy • Rock • Servant • Sin • Speak • St. Peter • Suffering • Winners •
The Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year: C, Lectionary: 36)
THEMES: Adultery • Commandment • Compassion • Condemn • Conversion • Exodus • Focus • Follow • Forgive • Future • Grace • Holy Spirit • Home • Humility • Interpretation • Journey • Joy • Judgment • Justice • Lent • Mercy • Misery • New • Paul • Prodigal • Prophecy • Reconciliation • Reflection • Scapegoat • Sin • Suffering • Transformation •
The Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year: C, Lectionary: 33)
THEMES: Commandment • Community • Conversion • Covenant • Creation • Dignity • Ego • Environment • Famine • Forgive • Freedom • Gather • Generosity • Grace • Intention • Joy • Justice • Lent • Light • Love • Mercy • Mother • New • Parent • Patience • Prodigal • Reconciliation • Repent • Sight • Sin • Soul • Understand •
The Third Sunday of Lent (Year: C, Lectionary: 30)
THEMES: Anger • Baptism • Bush • Care • Complacency • Complain • Conversion • Death • Discipline • Eucharist • Fear • Fire • Fruit • Guilt • Happiness • History • Holy • Hope • Justice • Lead • Lent • Mercy • Mission • Moses • Name • Opportunity • Peace • Prayer • Repent • Revelation • Sacrament • Share • Sight • Sin • Suffering • Tree • Understand •
The Second Sunday of Lent (Year: C, Lectionary: 27)
THEMES: Abraham • Community • Disability • Divinity • Doubt • Encounter • Exodus • Expectation • Faith • Heaven • Holy • Holy Spirit • Identity • Journey • Lent • Listen • Longing • Mission • Mountain • Paul • Prayer • Repent • Resurrection • Revelation • Sight • Stubborn • Success • Transfiguration • Transformation • Trust • Unity • Wisdom •
The First Sunday of Lent (Year: C, Lectionary: 24)
THEMES: Adam • Combat • Connected • Desert • Devil • Divinity • Economy • Eden • Exodus • Faith • Focus • Freedom • Human Rights • Identity • Idolatry • Justice • Lent • Power • Prayer • Remember • Repent • Salvation • Sin • Solomon • Temptation • Transformation •
The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 84)
THEMES: Blame • Death • Disciple • Dorothy Day • Focus • Fruit • Guide • Hate • Humility • Hypocrite • Judgment • Lead • Learn • Love • Praise • Pride • Reconciliation • Repent • Resurrection • Share • Sight • Sin • Speech • St. Katharine Drexel • Teach • Transformation • Wisdom •
The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 81)
THEMES: Adam • Choice • Commandment • Compassion • Courage • Dignity • Enemy • Faith • Forgive • Freedom • Gift • Hate • Holy Spirit • Judgment • Justice • Love • Martyr • Mercy • Morality • Parent • Prayer • Repent • Restore • Salvation • Sin • Teach • Transformation • Violence • Wisdom •
The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 78)
THEMES: Blessing • Curse • Detachment • Ego • Faith • Family • Focus • Happiness • Healing • Heaven • Hope • Idolatry • Joy • Kingdom • Love • Obedience • Polarity • Poverty • Priority • Relationship • Rely • Remember • Resurrection • Struggle • Suffering • Trust •
The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 75)
THEMES: Abundance • Call • Church • Conversion • Cooperate • Disciple • Evangelize • Faith • Fear • Follow • Grace • History • Holy • Humility • Lead • Listen • Mission • Prayer • Respond • Risk • Seek • Sin • Tradition • Trust • Vocation • Welcome •
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 72)
THEMES: Accept • Baptism • Blessing • Boundary • Challenge • Change • Cooperate • Endure • Faith • Gather • Grace • History • Hope • Jealous • Justice • Light • Limit • Love • Mission • Prophet • Reject • Salvation • Sight • Suffering • Transformation • Unity •
The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 69)
THEMES: Authority • Baptism • Belonging • Charity • Community • Diversity • Evangelize • Family • Freedom • Gather • Gift • History • Holy Spirit • Identity • Joy • Justice • Learning • Listen • Luke • Marriage • Mercy • Mission • Pharisees • Poverty • Praise • Preach • Proclaim • Purpose • Repent • Salvation • Sight • Talent • Understand • Unity • Works •
The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year: C, Lectionary: 66)
THEMES: Abundance • Accept • Adam • Community • Cross • Doubt • Eve • Faith • Follow • Gift • Glory • Grace • Grateful • Holy Spirit • Hope • Illness • Interpretation • Joy • Love • Marriage • Martin Luther King Jr. • Mary • Miracle • Music • Obedience • Prayer • Priest • Proclaim • Purification • Revelation • Salvation • Sight • Tongues • Transformation • Trust • Unity • Wine • Works •
The Baptism of the Lord (Year: C, Lectionary: 21)
THEMES: Baptism • Change • Child • Cross • Doubt • Exodus • Faith • Family • Follow • Gift • Grace • Guide • Healing • Holy Spirit • Identity • Incarnation • John-the-Baptist • Lead • Love • Magi • Miracle • Mission • Parent • Praise • Prayer • Priest • Prophet • Purgatory • Revelation • Sheep • Sin • Trust • Vocation •
The Feast of the Holy Family (Year: C, Lectionary: 17)
THEMES: Child • Commandment • Elder • Emmaus • Fair • Family • Gift • Hannah • Holy • Jesus • Joseph • Justice • Listen • Love • Mary • Mission • Parent • Parents • Patience • Prayer • Relationship • Sacrifice • Samuel • St. Joseph • Struggle • Trust • Virtue • Vocation • Wisdom •
The Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year: C, Lectionary: 12)
THEMES: Advent • Anger • Ark of the Covenant • Bethlehem • Birth • Charity • Christmas • Coming • Community • Covenant • David • Elizabeth • Evangelize • Eve • Faith • Fear • Focus • History • Holy Spirit • Hope • Incarnation • Joy • Kingdom • Mary • Mission • Music • Obedience • Power • Prayer • Priest • Rachel • Racism • Sacrifice • Salvation • Sight • Trust • Unity • Women • Works •
The Third Sunday of Advent (Year: C, Lectionary: 9)
THEMES: Advent • Anxiety • Baptism • Charity • Choice • Coming • Commandment • Communion • Compassion • Conversion • Disciple • Doubt • Eucharist • Evil • Focus • Follow • Gift • Grateful • Guadalupe • History • Holy Spirit • John-the-Baptist • Joy • Justice • Kingdom • Mercy • Morality • Mother-Teresa • Poverty • Prayer • Prepare • Prophecy • Repent • Resurrection • Salvation • Struggle • Thanksgiving • Works •
The Second Sunday of Advent (Year: C, Lectionary: 6)
THEMES: Advent • Christmas • Communion • Conversion • Courage • Death • Desert • Disciple • Division • End • Environment • Evengelize • Exile • Exodus • Focus • Gather • History • Hope • Incarnation • Israel • John-the-Baptist • Joy • Light • Mountain • Prepare • Prophecy • Repent • Return • Way • Welcome • Works •
The First Sunday of Advent (Year: C, Lectionary: 3)
THEMES: Advent • Baptism • Care • Charity • Comfort • Coming • Community • Crisis • Cross • End • Eternity • Evangelize • Faith • Focus • Follow • Gift • Holy • Hope • Jeremiah • Judgment • Justice • Mercy • Neighbor • Poverty • Prepare • Promise • Prophet • Racism • Relationship • Resurrection • Revelation • Salvation • Seed • Sight • Spirit • Suffering • Thanksgiving • Trust • Violence • Welcome •