Sunday Readings

Five takeaways from the readings and the parable the Catechism calls a key to the spiritual life.

Keep praying, even when it seems useless, and encourage others to join you. You will be glad you did.

The story of the lepers isn’t about an ancient disease. It’s about how Jesus saves us today.

The life of faith is the greatest, most exhilarating life in the world. Sometimes. Other times it is the most tedious, thankless life in the world. It’s supposed to be that way. The Church explains why in Sunday’s readings, the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. Here are six

Sunday readings point to the joy of giving and the slow-motion descent into hell.

Jesus tells a humorous story with a seriously life-changing meaning on the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

The Exaltation of the Cross Feast offers hope after the killing of Charlie Kirk and kids at Annunciation School.

What does it look like to ‘hate’ your family for the sake of Christ? How is that okay?

Jesus continues his lessons on heaven and hell — and how each can start here on earth

The readings at Mass have life-altering things to say about heaven and hell on the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C. Here are five takeaways drawn from Sunday Readings columns at this site and the Extraordinary Story podcast. First: The Readings for Sunday Mass deliver amazing news, but with an enormous hidden consequence.

Takeaways for the Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year C, where “God-With-Us” leads the race of life.

Five takeaways for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C.