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Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy Equips Us to Love the Least Among Us (30th Sunday of Ordinary Time) – Year A This commentary draws a single line from the Torah’s protection of the alien, the widow, and the poor through Paul’s witness in Thessalonica to Christ’s greatest commandment, to show how the liturgy of the Mass equips us to love the least among us. First Reading (Exodus 22:20-26): “You shall not molest or...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy Teaches Us Who Created Us and Why He Created Us (29th Sunday of Ordinary Time) – Year A This commentary reads three portraits of belonging: a pagan king unknowingly used by God, a young church on fire for the One who chose them, and Christ’s question about whose image is on the coin, to show how the liturgy of the Mass constantly teaches us whose we are and why we were made. First...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy Wants You to Invite People to Come Feast with Jesus This commentary climbs Isaiah’s mountain to the banquet God prepares for His people, enters the king’s wedding feast alongside guests who refused to come, and presses a question of its own, “When was the last time you boldly invited someone to encounter His love in His dwelling place?” all to show how the liturgy of the Mass sends us...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgy is the Fertile Ground, and We are the Harvest (27th Sunday of Ordinary Time) This commentary walks through two vineyards: one prepared by God but yielding rotten grapes, the other so precious that men die trying to seize its fruit, and shows how the liturgy of the Mass tends the new vineyard in which we are the branches, the harvest, and the wine. First Reading (Isaiah 5:1-7): God’s...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION Liturgical Worship is us Taking Personal Responsibility for Our Life This commentary pulls together Ezekiel’s sober teaching on personal accountability, Paul’s hymn of Christ’s self-emptying, and the parable of the two sons — to show how every act of liturgical worship is us claiming personal responsibility for our own holiness. First Reading (Ezekiel 18:25-28): God refuses the cumulative-grade...

Does the New Mass Really Lack the Hand of a Saint? Published on September 23, 2026 Everyone has heard it: the Novus Ordo is the first Mass without the hand of a saint on it. Check the names and the slogan falls apart. Paul VI promulgated it, John Paul II revised it, and Gregory's Canon sits at its heart. Here is what the claim gets wrong, and what it gets right. The post Does the New Mass Really Lack the Hand of a Saint? first appeared on Saint Dominic's Media. Read more... $19.07 Article 7...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION Liturgical Worship is us Taking Personal Responsibility for Our Life This commentary pulls together Ezekiel’s sober teaching on personal accountability, Paul’s hymn of Christ’s self-emptying, and the parable of the two sons — to show how every act of liturgical worship is us claiming personal responsibility for our own holiness. First Reading (Ezekiel 18:25-28): God refuses the cumulative-grade...

Study, Pray, Contemplate REFLECTIONS ON READINGS AT MASS OUR THEOLOGY COURSES OUR BOOK COLLECTION The Liturgical Teaching on the Relationship Between Sin and Forgiveness This commentary follows the thread of mercy from Ben Sira’s sober warning to Paul’s claim that we are entirely the Lord’s to Christ’s seventy-seven-times answer — to show how the liturgy makes forgiveness as accessible to us as God’s own mercy. First Reading (Sirach 27:30 – 28:7): “Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the...

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...