In today’s Gospel the Pharisees try to trick Jesus into committing a crime by asking Him if it is lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? Jesus very cleverly responds by asking whose image is on the coin, and when they answer Caesar He tells them to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar.… Continue reading 29th Sunday In Ordinary Time Year A
Month: October 2014
Holiness, the Lapis Angularis of the Conspiratio of the Sensus Fidelium
Holiness, the Lapis Angularis of the Conspiratio of the Sensus Fidelium: A Response to Dr. Finucane’s paper Reading Lumen Gentium through Evangelii Gaudium On the occasion of the 5th Annual Newman Convocation in St. Louis,Missouri In calling for the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII, called for a “new Pentecost.”[1] Fifty-two years later… Continue reading Holiness, the Lapis Angularis of the Conspiratio of the Sensus Fidelium
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
IS 5: 1-7 / PS 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16 , 19-20 / Phil 4: 6-9 / MT 21:33-43 In 2008, my second year in the seminary, Kerry Kennedy came out with a New York Times Bestselling Book entitled Being Catholic Now. In this book, Kerry compiled reflections from many famous Catholics including Cardinal… Continue reading 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
Through The Cross To Light 