26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lazarus and Dives - 11th Century Painting

Monthly Intention of Pope Francis

"We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."

It saddens and angers me that the death penalty continues to be legal in so many US states. Our prisons are secure and those within them pose no threat to our safety. While I understand the desire that someone pay a price for a crime they have committed, I believe that we as a society are called to something more. read more...

Sunday Scripture Reflections

Bishop Robert Barron - How Are You Caring For the Poor?: Friends, Pope Benedict XVI memorably said that the Church does three essential things: it evangelizes, it worships God, and it cares for the poor. This week, the words of Amos the prophet and Jesus’ parable of Lazarus and the rich man are meant to put us on the hook when it comes to the third task. How much do we care for those who are poor? Are we living lives of self-preoccupation and self-indulgence while our own brothers and sisters are suffering and starving at our gate? listen to more...

Dr. Scott Hahn - A Great Chasm:

The rich and powerful are visited with woe and exile in today’s Liturgy—not for their wealth but for their refusal to share it; not for their power but for their indifference to the suffering at their door. The complacent leaders in today’s First Reading feast on fine foods and wines, reveling while the house of Joseph, the kingdom of Israel, collapses around them. read more...

Our Sunday Visitor – Opening the Word – Becoming Friends With Lazarus: “From the poor man we learn that all who suffer curses and injustice among us will stand before us in that other life.” So preached St. John Chrysostom. That’s the point of this parable of Lazarus and the rich man, a very important point at least. The poor we see or don’t see in this life we will see again; and, how the poor greet us then depends on how we greet them now, upon whether we saw the poor in this life as our friends and upon whether we treated them as friends. That’s the point, the haunting test. read more...

10:30 Livestream Mass

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