Sunday Readings

In Sunday’s Gospel, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B, Jesus has a tough time preaching in his home town of Nazareth. “Where did this man get all this?” they ask. They know his family (there was no Hebrew word for “cousins,” and so here, as elsewhere in the

  The readings this Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B) help me with a problem I have always had, since returning to my faith: I have never liked the “Hail, Holy Queen” prayer. The “Hail, Holy Queen” uses strange, strong language that sounded excessive to me. In it

St. Paul famously said that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, our faith is in vain. This Sunday’s Gospel shows that the same thing can be said in the reverse: Since Christ has been raised from the dead, our faithlessness is in vain. To lack faith is