September 5, 2021 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 35:4–7; Psalm 146:6–10; James 2:1–5; Mark 7:31–37 Are you asking God for enough? Today’s readings urge us to think bigger, to ask for more, to see more intently, to listen more deeply, and, most especially, to open ourselves to the transformations that God desires to accomplish […]
Author: Sister Lisa Marie Belz
From the Archives · September / October 2021
A Table for All Peoples: From God’s Table to Our Own. The Eucharist and Prophetic Transformation
[This article was originally published in Emmanuel – July/August 2014 issue.] Have you ever wondered from where the items on your kitchen table originally came? The average North American table will have items on it from a league of nations. Today as I sat at table enjoying breakfast, I counted a number of items that […]
Breaking the Word · November / December 2020
Scriptural Reflections — Homiletics (November/December 2020)
November 1, 2020 Solemnity of All Saints Revelation 7:2-4,9-14; Psalm 24:1b-4b,5-6; 1 John 3:1-3, Matthew 5:1-12a “See what love the Father has bestowed on us!” Today’s feast commemorates the happy memory of those who lived by seeing, those whose capacity for spiritual sight still today inspires in us a desire to see what they saw […]