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Two Stories of Two Fathers 4 Advent Year A – Background

QUICK REFERENCE December 21, 2025 | Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A)USCCB Readings Readings: First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. Second Reading: Romans 1:1-7 Gospel: Matthew Matthew 1:18-24 One-Sentence Theme: Two fathers in the Davidic line—one who refuses God's sign and destroys his son, one who receives God's sign and adopts a son not his own—reveal what makes us capable of receiving Emmanuel....

The Last Ordinary Sunday – 33 OT (Year C) Background

If there were no Sunday obligation this year—no hell threat, no requirement—would we still come? Would we still show up to encounter God in our emptiness, or are we mostly trying to look like a well-adorned temple? QUICK REFERENCE Date: November 16, 2025Liturgical Season: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Last Sunday in Ordinary Time before Christ the King) Readings: First Reading: Malachi 3:19-20a Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8,...

The impossible promise and Insomniac servants – journeying from the crossroads to the Promised Land. (19 OT Year C): Reflection

A Reflection for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C There are crossroads in this world that even biblical fathers never dared to leave behind, purposedly settling down between grief and abundance. We also may get stuck halfway to heaven, camping at intersections of performance and grace, oscillating between trying too hard and not trying at all. And yet this Sunday maps out the invisible path from a simple tent to the Promised Land, from a...