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Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy is Building a Culture and a Community of Mercy, Love, and Healing (23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time) – Year A This commentary hears Ezekiel called as watchman, listens to Paul reduce all commandments to a single rule of love, and walks through Christ’s pattern of fraternal correction to show how the liturgy of the Mass forms a culture and community of mercy, love, and healing. First...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION How the Liturgy Trains Us to Make Ourselves a Living Sacrifice (22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time) – Year A This commendary sits with Jeremiah’s honest complaint, Paul’s call to offer our very bodies, and Christ’s demand that we take up our cross — and shows how the repetition of the Mass quietly trains us to become the living sacrifice we are summoned to be. First Reading (Jeremiah 20:7-9): The...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgical Teaching on the Two Types of People (21st Sunday of Ordinary Time) – Year A This commentary contrasts the proud steward Shebna with the faithful Eliakim, listens for Peter’s confession, and lingers in Paul’s doxology, to show how the liturgy of the Mass exposes the two types of people in the world and gives us the answer to the question Christ still asks. First Reading (Isaiah...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgical Teaching on the Catholicity of God (20th Sunday in Ordinary Time) – Year A This commentary traces a single theme through the three readings, the catholicity, the universal reach, of God’s mercy, and shows how the liturgy of the Mass embodies that reach in a single sacrifice offered in countless places. First Reading (Isaiah 56:1, 6-7): Post-exile, God opens His altar to foreigners...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy of the Catholic Mass is Forming us to Have No Fear of the World This commentary follows Elijah running for his life, Paul anguishing over his kinsmen, and Peter sinking on the sea — three portraits of fear answered by the quiet, real, and saving Presence of the Lord that the liturgy of the Mass now makes available to us at every altar. First Reading (1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a): Fleeing...

To celebrate twenty years since that Feast of Saint Dominic, we're marking the occasion with a sale across the entire Saint Dominic's Media Collection, both paperback and hardcover editions of every title. That includes titles like The Catholic Catechism on Freemasonry, The Liturgical Sense of the Readings at Mass, The Liturgy of Saint Gregory the Theology, Return to the Sacred, Tales of a Priest, and 10 more. Claim Your 20% Off Now! Twenty years ago, on the Feast of Saint Dominic in 2006, I...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgical Teaching on How to Avoid Separation from God This commentary sits with a crowd fed in a deserted place, hears Isaiah’s invitation to come and eat without money, and presses Paul’s question, “What will separate us from the love of Christ?” — all to show how the liturgy of the Mass keeps us from the one separation that matters. First Reading (Isaiah 55:1-3): God calls the penniless...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CATHOLIC LITURGIES The Liturgy of the Catholic Mass Creates in Us a Servant’s Heart This commentary listens in as a young King Solomon prays for an understanding heart, follows Paul’s confidence that all things work for the good of those who love God, and walks through three parables of the Kingdom hiding in plain sight — all to show how the liturgy of the Mass forms a true servant’s heart in us....

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CATHOLIC LITURGIES The Liturgy of the Catholic Mass is the Best Evidence of God’s Loving Patience This episode explores the patient mercy of God revealed across the three readings — a patience that lets weeds grow with wheat, gives the Spirit to pray within our weakness, and welcomes us back to the altar again, and again, and again. First Reading (Wisdom 12:13, 16-19): God’s might is the source of...