27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Francis)

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Today St. Paul tells us, “Have no anxiety at all.” (Phil 4:6) We perhaps smile at those words. When someone says not to worry, it can sound like Pollyanna – a person so blindly optimistic that they imagine bad things can...

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Vinner)

“CALLED TO BEAR FRUITS IN THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD” My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The common theme of today’s liturgy of the word is called to bear fruits in the vineyard of the lord. In today’s first reading, called “Isaiah’s Song of the Vineyard,” the...

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Vinner)

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ, God loves us!  Completely and without limits God loves us.  God wants our salvation.  God is not a God who wants us to suffer for sin but instead God wants to save us from all sin.  What is our response? The first reading today, from...