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Today’s Readings – Sunday of Week 6 of Ordinary Time (Year C)

Commentary on Jeremiah 17:5-8; 1 Corinthians 15:12,16-20; Luke 6:17,20-26

Today’s Gospel says:

Blessed are you who are poor...But woe to you who are rich...


Maybe in church this is very nice to hear, but is it a practical teaching in the real world? The Gospel says that many people from many places came to hear Jesus preach. But these words, we are told, though clearly relevant to all, were meant especially for Jesus’ disciples. Who are his disciples? They are those who have identified themselves fully with Jesus’ mission, with his vision of life. They are those who believe in him, who listen to him, and follow him.

What Jesus says in Luke’s Gospel today is similar to Matthew’s eight beatitudes. When we first hear them they seem like a contradiction: … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Claude de la Colombière, Priest

Claude la Colombière, third child of the notary Bertrand La Colombière and Margaret Coindat, was born on 2 February, 1641 at Saint-Symphorien-d’Ozon, in the Dauphine, southeastern France, between Lyons and Vienne. He entered the Jesuit order at Avignon in 1659.  His motives for th … Continue


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