How are you choosing to use the gifts that God has given you? Are you stirring them into flame to grow your love and faith in Jesus? God has given us gifts that we can't get anywhere else, and every day, it's up to us to decide how to use them.

Catholic Mass readings for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 5, 2025

First Reading: Habakkuk 1: 2-3; 2: 2-4
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 95: 1-2, 6-7, 8-9
Second Reading: Second Timothy 1: 6-8, 13-14
Alleluia: First Peter 1: 25
Gospel: Luke 17: 5-10

Did you know that the last Sunday of September in the U.S. is Priesthood Sunday? Today's readings ask us to see beyond ourselves, and to realize that there is more to life than our comfort. Jesus asks us to support those in need, which includes our seminarians.

Catholic Mass readings for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 28, 2025

First Reading: Amos 6: 1a, 4-7
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 146: 7, 8-9, 9-10
Second Reading: First Timothy 6: 11-16
Alleluia: Second Corinthians 8: 9
Gospel: Luke 16: 19-31

Do you ever think of Mass as a source of power? Our participation in Mass brings us God's power and grace, and helps us become more of the person God wants us to be, especially helping us to bring God's love to the poor.

Catholic Mass readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 21, 2025

First Reading: Amos 8: 4-7
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 113: 1-2, 4-6, 7-8
Second Reading: First Timothy 2: 1-8
Alleluia: Second Corinthians 8: 9
Gospel: Luke 16: 1-13

Are you wondering about the opening line of the second reading that "Jesus ... did not regard equality with God something to be grasped?" Father Chuck helps us to understand it by comparing Jesus to a jeweler's son who needs to rescue radiant diamonds (us) from the muck. Jesus understands and embraces the need to become human to be able to triumph over sin as God the Son, and doesn't seek the same role as God the Father.

Catholic Mass readings for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, 2025

First Reading: Numbers 21: 4b-9
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 78: 1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38
Second Reading: Philippians 2: 6-11
Gospel: John 3: 13-17

How has following Jesus radically changed your life? In today's second reading, St. Paul reveals Christianity as a revolutionary movement in which a slave becomes a beloved brother. It's just as true today that we as Christians are led by God to grow beyond worldly categories as we grow closer to Christ.

Catholic Mass readings for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 7, 2025

First Reading: Wisdom 9: 13-18b
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90: 3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17
Second Reading: Philemon 1: 9-10, 12-17
Alleluia: Psalms 119: 135
Gospel: Luke 14: 25-33

Do you think of yourself as a worker for God? As followers of Jesus, we are asked not just to learn His teachings, but to take on a new way of living and being. All we do, even with the esteem of others, is for the glory of God.

Catholic Mass readings for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 31, 2025

First Reading: Sirach 3: 17-18, 20, 28-29
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 68: 4-5, 6-7, 10-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 12: 18-19, 22-24
Alleluia: Matthew 11: 29ab
Gospel: Luke 14: 1, 7-14

How many times do we decide to go our own direction rather than follow God? In today's first reading, the esteemed princes don't like God's message of surrender. While God's message may not be popular, let us surrender our control and desires and trust God's love and wisdom.

Catholic Mass readings for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 17, 2025

First Reading: Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 40: 2, 3, 4, 18
Second Reading: Hebrews 12: 1-4
Alleluia: John 10: 27
Gospel: Luke 12: 49-53