Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

On Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm, we continue the retreat on Living the Eucharist: Circle of Life.  This week, we went through the second movement of the Eucharist about the Liturgy of the Word. We walked through the critical elements of this movement and how God comes at us in the four different scripture passages:…

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jesus saves his harshest words for the Pharisees and the religious leaders of his time. When they challenged him, he would regularly accuse them of being “hypocrites” as they consistently say one thing but did another.  Jesus was brutal on them and in Sunday’s gospel; he is particularly harsh. Why does he do this? Mostly…