Browsing the June 2015 archive of Blog, Gospel Readings & Homilies

Sister Kate’s “GOSPEL QUESTION OF THE WEEK”…Mark 5: 21-43…Weekend of 6/27-28/2015…Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by John Craver on 6/25/15

This weekend’s Gospel passage describes TWO miracles performed by Jesus, the healing of a woman from her chronic bleeding disease and the revival of the dead daughter of Jairus to life. The stories actually have several common features. One woman is 12 years old, and the other has suffered for ... Read More »

Sister Kate’s “GOSPEL QUESTION OF THE WEEK”…Mark 4: 35-41…Weekend of 6/20-21/2015…Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by John Craver on 6/20/15

This weekend we hear the familiar story of Jesus in the boat with the disciples and a big storm descended, making their boat rock big time.  The disciples, many of them experienced fishermen, were paralyzed with fear and woke Jesus up to “save them.”  Of course, He did save them and ... Read More »

Sister Kate’s “GOSPEL QUESTION OF THE WEEK”…Mark 4: 26-34…Weekend of 6/13-14/2015…Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by John Craver on 6/13/15

The BIG Feast Days are completed!  Holy Week, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost, Holy Trinity, and Corpus Christi are behind us and we are back in “Ordinary Time.”  I feel like rendering a verse of  “I’m back in the saddle again!”  As I have mentioned before, Ordinary Time is not like a “Ho-Hum” time.  Rather ... Read More »

Sister Kate’s “GOSPEL QUESTION OF THE WEEK”…Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26…Weekend of 6/6-7/2015…Most Holy Body of Blood of Jesus (Corpus Christi)

Posted by John Craver on 6/06/15

This weekend we celebrate “Corpus Christi Sunday”… the “Body and Blood of Jesus.”  The Church tells us that this celebration of the Eucharist was established for three purposes: to offer God our thanks for Christ’s abiding presence with us in the Eucharist and to honor Jesus’ presence in our lives…to remind us, the ... Read More »