September 2, 2018 Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 The readings this week prompt us to consider how easily we can turn certain forms of piety or religious practices into defining aspects of our faith, sometimes allowing them to distract us from the […]
Author: John R. Barker, OFM
Breaking the Word · March / April 2018
Scriptural Reflections – Homiletics (March/April 2018)
March 4, 2018 Third Sunday of Lent Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25 The first readings for Lent this year highlight a fundamental feature of the Old Testament witness to God, which is that God likes to make covenants. We’ve already been reminded of the covenant God made with Noah and “every […]