Scripture

May 29, 2024

June 9: 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Loretta Micele, who passed away in 2014, spent 70 of her 95 years working joyfully at a concession stand at the White Sox stadiums. In appreciation, the White Sox named a concession lounge in her honor: Loretta’s Lounge.

May 29, 2024

June 2: Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

This Sunday the church celebrates Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ, and lifts up in praise and thanksgiving the sacrament that most defines Christian life, the Eucharist.

May 15, 2024

May 26: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

One well-known biblical scholar has described the biblical experience of God as one who is both awesomely powerful and infinitely tender.

February 16, 2023

Feb. 19: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

On Oct. 2, 2006, a mentally ill man entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish village of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and, after letting the teacher and the boy pupils leave, proceeded to shoot eight young girls, ages 6 to 13, killing five of them and severely wounding the rest. Afterward he took his own life.

February 01, 2023

Feb. 12: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Sermon on the Mount forms the very heart of the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel from which our Sunday readings will be drawn throughout this liturgical year. We began hearing this segment of the Gospel with the Beatitudes on Jan. 29 and selections from the sermon will continue to the end of February.

February 01, 2023

Feb. 5: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

What would it have been like to hear Jesus preach? The Sermon on the Mount is not the transcript of a single speech or discourse but a collection of Jesus’ sayings that he spoke on a number of different occasions.

January 18, 2023

Jan. 29: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Editors’ note: It is with great sadness that we mourn the Nov. 8, 2022, death of Passionist Father Donald Senior, whose Scripture column we were honored to publish over the past six years. As we look for a new Scripture columnist, we will continue reprinting Father Don’s past columns, with the permission of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ.

January 18, 2023

Jan. 22: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

A memory that has stayed with me all my life is a Christmas visit to Dunning Veteran’s Hospital in Chicago. I was there with a group of fellow seminarians, invited to sing carols by one of our Passionist priests who was a chaplain there.

January 04, 2023

Jan. 15: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

With the Christmas season now completed, the liturgical year begins the period of “ordinary time.” Traditionally this new “ordinary” season starts with the account of Jesus’ baptism and that is the case this Sunday, with the selection from John’s Gospel.

January 04, 2023

Jan. 8: Epiphany of the Lord

Sometimes being a Christian means moving against the tide. Judging from current political trends, maintaining a global perspective and seeking to transcend social and economic boundaries might be a Christian stance that is a lot less popular today.
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