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Good Morning World. It is September 6th, the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings for today’s mass may be ...
09/06/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 6th, the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The second reading is from Romans 13:8-10
Brothers and sisters:
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, namely,
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love.
I care about you.
Love.
I respect you.
Love.
I cherish you.
Love.
I value your life as much as I value my life, or, I value your life even more than I value my own life.

“Love does no evil to the neighbor.”

Any and all understandings of love would not include doing evil to another.

Paul says that love is the fulfillment of the law.

Let us fulfill the law by loving one another, World.

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Good Morning World. It is September 5th, Saturday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. September 5th is the memorial of Sa...
09/05/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 5th, Saturday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. September 5th is the memorial of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The readings for today’s mass may found at usccb.org.

The gospel is from 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.”

The disciples were hungry. They were eating heads of grain to try to satisfy their hunger.

As with many physical things in the Bible, there could be a spiritual reality corresponding with the physical reality.

For example, physical blindness can also represent spiritual blindness.
Being hearing impaired can also represent spiritual deafness.

I wonder if physical hunger also represent spiritual hunger?

The disciples had also been spiritually hungry and that’s why they started following Jesus.

The Pharisees in today’s gospel seem to be more concerned about the sabbath laws than what Jesus is saying and doing.

Maybe they are not spiritually hungry.
Maybe they are hungry for different things.

And maybe when we get hungry for food, it can remind us of our hunger for Jesus and His message.

Whenever we eat something today, World, we can say a prayer asking Jesus to satisfy our spiritual hunger.

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Good Morning World. It is September 4th, Friday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be ...
09/04/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 4th, Friday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The first reading is from 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Brothers and sisters:
Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal;
I do not even pass judgment on myself;
I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted;
the one who judges me is the Lord.
Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God.

“What do you do?” In today’s society, this is not an uncommon question when people are being introduced.

What do you do? Butcher, baker, candlestick maker, as the nursery rhyme goes. What do I do?

In today’s reading, Saint Paul is identifying himself and his co-workers. Paul say that they are servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

A servant is someone who performs duties for others; an attendant, a helper.

A steward is someone who manages the property and/or wealth or resources that belong to another.

Paul is saying that he performs duties for Christ; he is a helper in spreading the Good News of Jesus.
Paul is also saying that he manages the gifts that God has entrusted to him, the mysteries of God, using them to build God’s kingdom.

Through our baptism, World, we are also called to be servants and stewards, performing duties for Jesus and using the gifts entrusted to us to build the kingdom of God.

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Good Morning World. It is September 3rd, Thursday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. September 3rd is the memorial of Po...
09/03/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 3rd, Thursday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. September 3rd is the memorial of Pope Saint Gregory the Great. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The first reading is from 1 Corinthians 3:18-23
Brothers and sisters:
Let no one deceive himself.
If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool, so as to become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written:
God catches the wise in their own ruses,
and again:
The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you, Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future:
all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God.

“The wisdom of the world is the foolishness of God.”
My first reaction to this sentence was, “When will the world realize that its wisdom is God’s foolishness?”

Then I realized that world will never get this. In its “wisdom” the world thinks it knows everything. It’s an arrogant knowledge. It cannot admit that God knows more, that God knows better.

However, individuals can be humble before God. Individuals can acknowledge that they do not know everything. Individuals can ask God for assistance. Individuals can beseech the Holy Spirit to deepen and expand the gift of wisdom within them.

As we acknowledge our lack of wisdom to God, we are actually growing in Wisdom, World.

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Good Morning World. It is September 2nd, Wednesday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may ...
09/02/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 2nd, Wednesday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The gospel is from Luke 4:38-44
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.
Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her.
He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her.
She got up immediately and waited on them.
At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him.
He laid his hands on each of them and cured them.
And demons also came out from many, shouting “You are the Son of God.”
But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ.
At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place.
The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them.
But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

Jesus healed people.

He healed eyes and ears and mouths and limbs.
He healed fevers and raised the dead.

These healings were not some extras that Jesus just added in to make things interesting.

These healings were intricately connected to His proclamation that the Kingdom of God is at hand.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to demonstrate that His kingdom is not like any earthly kingdom.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to demonstrate His power.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to demonstrate His compassion.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to show that humanity’s relationship with God would be healed.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to reflect His Father’s glory.

Some theologians offer that Jesus healed people to overcome the works of the evil one.

Maybe the reason is one of the above. Maybe the reason is some of the above. Maybe the reason is all of the above.

Whatever the reason is, World, the point is that Jesus healed people.

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Good Morning World. It is September 1st, Tuesday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be...
09/01/2026

Good Morning World. It is September 1st, Tuesday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The verse before the gospel is from Luke 7:16
A great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people.

“George Washington slept here.”

My parents were watching a movie on television. I was little kid. There was a bit in the movie where people were looking to save a house. One of the characters tried create an old-looking sign that said, “George Washington slept here.”

I wondered why that was so special. My parents tried to explain it to me, but I couldn’t grasp it at that time.

There is a park and a school in my hometown named Lafayette. The French General Lafayette visited New York during the revolutionary war and traveled, in part, along the Erie Canal. He was involved in several key revolutionary war battles.

Washington visited and slept.
Lafayette visited and directed battles.

In today’s gospel verse, Luke tells us the people were exclaiming that God has visited his people.

Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us.

God visited his people in the person of Jesus, and Jesus taught the people and healed them and shepherded them and loved them and died for them to save them.

Houses may be saved and parks and schools may be named because of the visits of historical figures.

It is worth reflecting on what it means for us, World, that God has visited his people.

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Good Morning World. It is August 31st, Monday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be fo...
08/31/2026

Good Morning World. It is August 31st, Monday of the 22nd week in ordinary time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The first reading is from 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

Paul is a great messenger. He’s reminding the Corinthians that it was the message, and not the messenger, that had impacted them.
Paul came to them in weakness and fear and with much trembling. And his proclamation of the message was not very eloquent.

So what made such an impact on the people?

The message about Jesus, and him crucified.

As Paul said, our faith is not based on human wisdom or human eloquence, but on God and God’s power.

May we ask God to strengthen and deepen our faith today and every day, World.

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Good Morning World. It is August 30th, the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings for today’s mass may be f...
08/30/2026

Good Morning World. It is August 30th, the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The first reading is from Jeremiah 20:7-9
You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed.
All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me.
Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the LORD has brought me derision and reproach all the day.
I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more.
But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.

Jeremiah has had a tough go of being God’s prophet.
In today’s reading, Jeremiah is venting about all the difficulties and is saying that he’s done, he’s finished, no more.

For a little while.

But what Jeremiah has heard from God, what Jeremiah has experienced with God, is too much for him. It is like a fire burning in his heart. It is imprisoned in his bones, waiting to explode out.

Jeremiah has a passion for God and God’s messages.

I think of all the troubles Jeremiah had because he is a prophet for God; yet something made him keep going.

Maybe it was the power of the messages.
Maybe it was his devotion to serving God.
Maybe it was his love for God and God’s love for him.

Whatever it was, Jeremiah kept going, and he kept going with passion.

I pray that I can have even just a little of Jeremiah’s passion on my spiritual journey, World.

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Good Morning World. It is August 29th, Saturday of the 21st week in ordinary time. August 29th is the memorial of Saint ...
08/29/2026

Good Morning World. It is August 29th, Saturday of the 21st week in ordinary time. August 29th is the memorial of Saint John the Baptist. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The first reading is from 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters.
Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God.
It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that, as it is written, Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.

God chooses the foolish and the weak and the lowly.

That doesn’t seem very smart.

Well, it doesn’t seem very smart according to human standards. Human standards would say choose the wise and the strong and those of good standing.

But if God chose those people, others may think that everything those people did was done on their own, without any help from God.

By choosing those the world considers foolish or weak or lowly, the world would know that it was by the grace of God that all was accomplished.

If ever we protest that we aren’t “good enough” to do God’s work, then we’ve missed point.

Whether we are weak or strong, foolish or wise, it is God and God’s grace that accomplishes God’s work in us and through us and for us, World.

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Good Morning World. It is August 28th, Friday of the 21st week in ordinary time. August 28th is the memorial of Saint Au...
08/28/2026

Good Morning World. It is August 28th, Friday of the 21st week in ordinary time. August 28th is the memorial of Saint Augustine. The readings for today’s mass may be found at usccb.org.

The verse before the gospel is from Luke 21:36
Be vigilant at all times and pray, that you may have the strength to stand before the Son of Man.

Be vigilant - be watchful.

I turned the television on to catch some of the Bills preseason game against Pittsburgh. When the TV came on, the channel was showing a police show. There were two detectives on a stakeout. And they were griping about just having to watch and wait, and wait and watch.

The gospel passage from Luke tells us to be vigilant, to be watchful.

But we are also supposed to be praying while we watch and wait.

Praying will help us be patient. Praying will help us persevere. Praying will help our strength increase. Praying will help recognize the nearness of the Son of Man. Praying will help us know Him when he comes.

As we make our life’s journey, World, we can watch and pray.

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