Mary Swain SL

Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17; I Corinthians 15:20-26, 28; Matthew 25:31-46 Here we are, on the last Sunday of the liturgical year, celebrating Christ as king.  For some of us, “king” may…

Exodus 22:20-26, Matthew 22:34-40 It is as though the reading from Exodus was written for our times.  “Don’t oppress.  Don’t extort.  Be compassionate.”  Oppression, greed and lack of consideration of…

Ezekiel 33:7-9, Matthew 18:15-20 I find the Ezekiel reading today difficult to understand.  I also find it filled with thoughts of hopelessness. It seems to be about correcting the other person, the…

Matthew 14: 22-33 Last Sunday’s Gospel and homily spoke of John the Baptist’s disciples coming to tell Jesus that John had been beheaded.  Jesus would have to be thinking that…

Jeremiah 20:10-13, Matthew 10:26-33 “Fear no one,” we just heard read at the beginning of today’s Gospel.  Jesus said to the Twelve, “Fear no one.”  To back up this command,…

In Matthew’s Gospel, in the section of the Gospel right before what we heard a few minutes ago, the women have just told the disciples, the eleven, that Jesus is…

These Easter days are so full of energy and life.  The disciples are off and running to tell the various communities about Jesus and about The Way.  The reading from…

Matthew 17:1-9 Last Sunday we followed Jesus into the desert.  Jesus was at the beginning of this work he sensed himself called to do.  We were reading from the fourth…

For a long time it has seemed to me that we here at the Motherhouse think of today’s feast as December 8, a feast of Mary, a jubilee day, long ago…