Author: DWRC

The liturgy today places before us one of the most demanding and beautiful teachings of Jesus: the call to love our enemies and to imitate the mercy of the heavenly Father. Saint Paul approaches the same mystery from another direction. Writing to the Corinthians about food associated with pagan sacrifice, he warns that knowledge without […]

The Church celebrates today the Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest, whose life was marked by radical dedication to Christ and heroic service to enslaved and suffering people. The liturgical readings appointed for his memorial place before us the Christian vocation to live with a heart detached from the passing world and completely oriented toward […]

The Church joyfully celebrates today the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorating the birth of the woman whom God chose to become the Mother of the Messiah. The liturgy directs our attention to God’s providential preparation for the Incarnation. Micah announces the coming ruler from Bethlehem whose origins are ancient and […]

The liturgy of this Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time presents a demanding but profoundly hopeful call to conversion, holiness, and the primacy of love. Saint Paul confronts the Christian community at Corinth because serious sin has been tolerated among them, and their complacency has prevented them from recognizing the gravity of what […]