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Feast of the Holy Family (Year A) – Free Liturgical Resources

QUICK REFERENCE Date: December 28, 2025Liturgical Season: Christmas Octave - Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and JosephLiturgical Year: Year AUSCCB Readings: One-Sentence Theme: God incarnates into our household systems, honoring the family as the first church where covenant identity is preserved not in stone but in the living relationship between generations. WHERE ARE WE? In the Christmas Octave We are still within the eight days of...

Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A) – Free Liturgical Resources

QUICK REFERENCE December 21, 2025 | Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A)Liturgical Color: Violet/Purple (Rose may have been used on Gaudete Sunday)Fourth Advent Candle: Angel's Candle / Love CandleUSCCB Readings for December 21, 2025 One-Sentence Theme: At the threshold of Christmas, we encounter two fathers—one who refuses God's sign through control, one who receives it through surrender—and discover that Emmanuel comes anyway, calling us to...

Second Sunday of Advent (Year A) – Free Liturgical Resources

QUICK REFERENCE Date: December 7, 2025Liturgical Season: Second Sunday of Advent, Year AReadings: Isaiah 11:1-10 | Psalm 72 | Romans 15:4-9 | Matthew 3:1-12Theme: Baptism calls us out of hiding to inhabit the impossible—a world where God's breath fills everything and no one has to pay the cost anymore. WHERE ARE WE? In the Foreground: Isaiah's Impossible Vision Wolf with lamb. Baby at the cobra's den. The lion eating straw like an ox....

The Threefold Coming: First Sunday of Advent – Year A

Entering the Season of Threefold Coming Advent begins. But not as our culture often imagines it - not primarily as a countdown to Christmas, not as premature celebration with nativity scenes and festive cheer. The Church invites us into something older, deeper, and far more urgent. Historically, Advent emerged in the 4th-6th centuries as a penitential season, sometimes lasting as long as Lent - a time of fasting, prayer, and preparation. Not...

Christ the King (Year C): Resources

QUICK REFERENCE Date: November 23, 2025Liturgical Season: Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (Last Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C)Readings: USCCB Lectionary #162 One-Sentence Theme:When earthly kingdoms collapse and the cosmos expands beyond human comprehension, the Church proclaims a King stripped naked on a cross-throne, where a criminal enters Paradise TODAY—not through cosmetic performance, but through simply saying...

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) – Free Liturgical Resources

"Ordinary" doesn't mean "less important." It means ordinary as whole—encountering Jesus complete, not through a seasonal lens. QUICK REFERENCE Date: November 16, 2025Liturgical Season: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year CReadings: USCCB Lectionary #159 One-Sentence Theme:When temple structures fall, the widow's poverty-encounter proves stronger than magnificent worship—and Jesus sits alone, waiting for us to show up in our lack, not our...

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) – Resources

The Pharisee isn't a cartoon villain. He's exhausted. He's been showing up faithfully for YEARS while others flake. He fasts twice a week—do YOU? He tithes on everything—do YOU? His resentment is understandable. His comparison is human. But his very goodness has become a prison. His discipline has turned into armour against compassion. QUICK REFERENCE Date: October 26, 2025 Liturgical Season: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Readings:...

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) – Resources

QUICK REFERENCE Date: October 19, 2025 (Note: Date will vary each year) Liturgical Season: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Readings: Exodus 17:8-13 | Psalm 121 | 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 | Luke 18:1-8 Theme: Persistent prayer requires exhausting work, community support, and the counterintuitive choice to keep looking up when everything pulls our gaze down. WHERE ARE WE? In Exodus: Israel has just crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14), received water...

Saved by Collapse: From Rejected to Beloved

Reflection for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Running in the Dark The city empties under evacuation orders. Every screen flickers blue against abandoned streets while mechanical voices drone their endless loop: "There are no more shuttles out of the impacted zone. Please remain at home and await further instructions." I choose shadows over searchlights, slipping through medieval corners while patrol units circle city hall. My heart...

Into the Mud: About a Prophet, an Ethiopian, a Nuclear Waste Repository and the Permission to Read the Gospel

Reflection for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C What if the most dangerous thing in the world isn't nuclear waste that stays lethal for 100,000 years, but a Gospel that stays troublesome for 2,000 years and counting? Join me as we follow a prophet into the mud, learn warning signs from nuclear scientists, and discover why sometimes the person who saves us is the last one we'd expect. Jesus the Troublemaker As I opened the readings for...