Liturgical Year C – Ordinary Time – Page 2

Readings: Wisdom 9:13-18 Psalm 90:3-6, 12-17 Philemon 1:9-10, 12-17 Luke 14:25-33 Chants Cristo, ca. 1800 (De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University) Scott Hahn with David Scott Like a king making ready for battle or a contractor about to build a tower, we have to count the cost as we set out to follow Jesus. Our Lord today is telling…

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 22, 2010

Readings: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Psalm 68:4-7,10-11 Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 Luke 14:1, 7-14 Chants Madonna and Child Peru, late 17th c. (Austin Auction Gallery) Scott Hahn with David Scott We come to the wedding banquet of heaven by way of humility and charity. This is the fatherly instruction we hear in today’s First Reading, and the message of today’s Gospel.…

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 21, 2010

Readings: Isaiah 66:18-21 Psalm 117:1, 2 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 Luke 13:22-30 Chants Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John Correggio, 1516 Scott Hahn with David Scott Jesus doesn’t answer the question put to Him in today’s Gospel. It profits us nothing to speculate on how many will be saved. What we need to know is what He tells us…

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 20, 2010

Readings: Jeremiah 38:4–6, 8–10 Psalm 40:2–4, 18 Hebrews 12:1–4 Luke 12:49–53 Christ Teaching, Anglo-Saxon, possibly Canterbury, ca. 1000 (Getty) Consuming Fire Our God is a consuming fire, the Scriptures tell us (see Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 4:24). And in this week’s Gospel, Jesus uses the image of fire to describe the demands of discipleship. The fire he has come to cast…

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 19, 2010

Readings: Wisdom 18:6-9 Psalm 33:1,12,18-22 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Luke 12:35-40 Chants Crucifix of St. Francis, San Francesco in Arezzo (Tuscanny), 13th c. Scott Hahn with David Scott We are born of the faith of our fathers, descending from a great cloud of witnesses whose faith is attested to on every page of Scripture (see Hebrews 12:1). We have been made His…

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 18, 2010

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11 Luke 12:13-21 Chants St. Peter and Christ, Mamartine Prison (Tullianum), Rome, 14th c. Scott Hahn with David Scott Trust in God—as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This should be the mark of our following of…

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 17, 2010

Readings: Genesis 18:20-32 Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13 Chants Baptism of Christ (detail), Piero della Francesco, 1450 Scott Hahn with David Scott Though we be “but dust and ashes,” we can presume to draw near and speak boldly to our Lord, as Abraham dares in today’s First Reading. But even Abraham—the friend of God (see Isaiah 41:8), our father…

16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 16, 2010

Readings: Genesis 18:1-10 Psalm 15:2-5 Colossians 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42 Chants The Ressurrection of Christ, Albert Altdorfer, 1518 Scott Hahn with David Scott God wants to dwell with each of us personally, intimately—as the mysterious guests once visited Abraham’s tent, as Jesus once entered the home of Mary and Martha. By his hospitality in today’s First Reading, Abraham shows us how…

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 15, 2010

Readings: Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37 Colossians 1:15-20 Luke 10:25-37 Chants The Annunciation, Kyiv, mid-18th c. ("Glory of Ukraine," Museum of Biblical Art) Scott Hahn with David Scott We are to love God and our neighbor with all the strength of our being, as the scholar of the Law answers Jesus in today’s Gospel. This command is…

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Liturgical Year C)

August 14, 2010

Readings: Isaiah 66:10-14 Psalm 66:1-7,16, 20 Galatians 6:14-18 Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 Chants Congregation of All the Saints Workshop of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, late 18th-early 19th c. ("Glory of Ukraine," Museum of Biblical Art) Scott Hahn with David Scott Jesus has a vision in today’s Gospel - Satan falling like lightning from the sky, the enemy vanquished by the missionary preaching…

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