29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking.

Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

We pray that every baptized person may be engaged in evangelization, available to the mission, by being witnesses of a life that has the flavour of the Gospel.

Pope Francis

Monthly Intention

of Pope Francis

Evangelization often gets a bad rap.

It’s the song by our favorite musician that we always skip. It’s the call we let go to voicemail. It’s the kiosk in the store we have to walk by. We don’t want to be rude, but we also are just so not interested. By ‘bad rap’, I mean the caricature of what evangelization entails that makes almost all of us cringe. read more...

Word on Fire Spotlight

Check out this video from Bishop Barron's series "The Mass" – A Privileged Encounter.

10:30 Livestream Mass

Pray with us online by following the YouTube link below. The stream is also accessible on the parish website and on our Facebook page.

Sunday Scripture Reflections

Bishop Robert Barron - Do You Really Want What God Wants?: Friends, power and honor, in and of themselves, are not a bad thing, but we wreak havoc when we ask for them in the wrong spirit. When we beseech the Lord with our desires, let us ask for what God wants for us rather than what our egos have determined to be good. listen to more...

Dr. Timothy O'Malley - The Final Misunderstanding:You can’t help but feel a bit of pathos for James and John. By now, they have heard Jesus tell them that he has come into the world to die and rise again. That power is revealed in weakness. That they must become like little children. They don’t seem capable of understanding. They want to sit on the left and right of Jesus in his glory. When he reigns from Jerusalem, they want to share in his power. Oh dear, this reader thinks to himself. read more...

Dr. Scott Hahn - Cup of Salvation:

The sons of Zebedee hardly know what they’re asking in today’s Gospel. They are thinking in terms of how the Gentiles rule, of royal privileges and honors. But the road to Christ’s kingdom is by way of His Cross. To share in His glory, we must be willing to drink the cup that He drinks.

The cup is an Old Testament image for God’s judgment. The wicked would be made to drink this cup in punishment for their sins. read more...