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09/06/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Matthew 18:15–20
Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches us how to correct a brother or sister. What is so rich here is the pursuit of the issue with a deep care for the person in question and also for the entire family of the Church (since love is our constant call). And then the wonderful conclusion: “If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.”

This sounds, at first, like a total rejection, but then we recall how Jesus treated the Gentiles and tax collectors—eating with them, pursuing them, drawing them into his circle. There might be a moment of rejection and expulsion in the process of fraternal correction, but it is only provisional and only for the sake of eventual reconciliation.

St. Augustine, who was never afraid to speak the hard truth when necessary, followed the recommendations of Matthew 18 very concretely. Over the table in his episcopal residence where he dined with the priests of his diocese hung a sign that read: “If you speak ill of your brother here, you are not welcome at this table.”

09/06/2026

If you do your work with joy, you can bring many souls to God. Joy is prayer, a sign of our generosity, evident in our eyes, our faces, our actions.
-St. Teresa of Calcutta

09/06/2026

Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love ­covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8

Magnificat Meditation
The greatest demand love makes on us is that we help one ­another into the Kingdom of God. Sometimes love requires us to speak a painful word of truth to awaken someone blinded by sin, ­recognizing that we ourselves are also sinners. Let us do for one another what we would have others do for us.

09/06/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 6:1–5
While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is Lord of the Sabbath.

Again and again, Jesus is portrayed as violating the sacred command to rest on the seventh day. His disciples pick grain on the Sabbath, and many times he cures on the Sabbath, much to the dismay of the protectors of Jewish law.

When challenged, he declares himself Lord of the Sabbath (a breathtaking claim for a Jew to make, since Yahweh alone could be assigned that title) and clarifies that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

In short, he claimed the properly divine prerogative of relativizing the significance of perhaps the defining practice of pious Jews and placing it in subordination to the kingdom of God.

09/05/2026

We are excited to start another year of walking with the teens on their faith journey! Please scan the QR code or click on the link to register.
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See you Thursday!

Be on the look out for our new Middle School Youth Ministry events!

St. Rose of Lima’s Youth Ministry invites all high school teens to join us for our Life Teen Kickoff! Come celebrate the start of a new year with us on September 10th at 7:00 PM. We can’t wait to see you there!

09/05/2026

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Luke 1:28

Magnificat Meditation
The Holy Name of Mary is powerful. The Church urges us to frequent recitation of the Hail Mary and the rosary. By keeping the name of Mary on our lips, we show our devotion to her. Mary’s mantle is always present to protect those who are her own. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the jewel of God’s creation, the holiest woman ever to live. When we repeat her name, we greatly honor God her Creator. Mary never keeps any glory for herself. Her soul magnifies the Lord
( Luke 1:46).

09/05/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Friday, September 4, 2026

Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time

Luke 5:33–39
The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

Friends, in today’s Gospel, people ask Jesus why he doesn’t encourage fasting among his followers. Jesus’s answer is wonderful: “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?” (That’s a typically Jewish style, by the way, answering a question with another question.)

This great image of the wedding feast comes up frequently in the New Testament, most obviously in the wedding feast at Cana narrative. And it is echoed in the tradition. Jesus is the wedding of heaven and earth, the marriage of divinity and humanity; he is the bridegroom and the Church is the bride. In him, the most intimate union is achieved between God and the world.

Could you imagine people fasting at a wedding banquet? Could you imagine going into an elegant room with your fellow guests and being served bread and water? It would be ridiculous! The mark of the Christian dispensation is joy. Exuberance. Delight. God and the world have come together. What could be better news?

09/04/2026

Magnificat Mass Meditation
Friday, September 4, 2026

Friday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

The scribes and Pharisees present Christ with a quandary they think will catch him in a contradiction. But the Lord “will bring to light what is hidden in darkness”—especially the mistrust and skepticism that is often within our hearts. Fortunately, this is not a fatalistic judgment, for Christ does not merely patch us over, leaving our old selves underneath and unchanged. Union with him makes us new, inside and out. In our rejoicing and our fasting, our joys and our sorrows, our virtues and our weaknesses—in short, in every circumstance—we look to the Bridegroom.

09/04/2026

He who trusts in the Lord, loving mercy surrounds him.
Psalm 32:10

Magnificat Meditation
How often do we rediscover the Psalmist’s insight: hidden guilt ­festers; honest admission of guilt heals!

09/03/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

Luke 5:1–11
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come to help them. They came and filled both boats so that the boats were in danger of sinking. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him.

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus climbs into Peter’s boat without asking permission. He simply commandeers this vessel that is central to the fisherman’s life and commences to give orders. This represents something of enormous moment: the invasion of grace.

Though God respects our relative independence, he is not the least bit content to leave us in a “natural” state. Instead, he wants to live in us, to become the Lord of our lives, moving into our minds, wills, bodies, imaginations, nerves, and bones.

This commandeering of nature by grace does not involve the compromising of nature but rather its perfection and elevation. When Jesus moves into the house of the soul, the powers of the soul are heightened and properly directed; when Jesus commands the boat of the natural human life, that life is preserved, strengthened, and given a new orientation.

This is signaled symbolically by the Lord’s directive to put out into the deep water. On our own, we can know and will within a very narrow range, seeking those goods and truths that appear within the horizon of our natural consciousness, but when grace invades us, we are enticed into far deeper waters.