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The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany
In today’s second reading, Paul weighs in on a dispute among the faith community in Corinth. Here is the issue: “Ought we to eat meat...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 31, 20214 min read


The Third Sunday After Epiphany
Peanuts cartoon character Lucy is sitting in her “five-cent psychology” booth where Charlie Brown has stopped for some advice about life....

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 24, 20214 min read


The Second Sunday After Epiphany
Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Before we judge Nathanael too severely, we need to recognize his very human response and...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 17, 20213 min read


The First Sunday after the Epiphany: the Baptism of Our Lord
Just a week after we heard the story of the magi traveling afar to find and visit the infant Christ child, we meet the all-grown-up Jesus...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 10, 20214 min read


Epiphany
Once upon a time there were some learned astronomers sitting at their respective stations, minding their own business, and gazing up at...

Father Nicholas Lang
Jan 3, 20214 min read


The First Sunday After Christmas
On this first Sunday after Christmas we hear a very different Gospel from what was read on Christmas Eve. There is no mention of Mary or...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 27, 20204 min read


Christmas Eve
In the name of God who gathers us together, comes to us and dwells with us: Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer. Amen. It is a great joy to...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 24, 20205 min read


Fourth Sunday of Advent
What was she thinking? What was going on in her head that day? What didn’t she say out loud? What would a teenage girl be thinking after...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 20, 20204 min read


The Third Sunday of Advent
“Well, who are you? who are you? who, who, who, who? Come on and tell me, who are you? who, who, who, who?” You might recall those lyrics...

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 13, 20205 min read


The Second Sunday of Advent
On this Second Sunday in Advent prophets come to visit us. We hear from Isaiah and John the Baptist, both big names in religious history....

Father Nicholas Lang
Dec 6, 20205 min read


First Sunday of Advent
“In those days … the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the...

Father Nicholas Lang
Nov 29, 20205 min read


The Reign of Christ the King
In the Name of our God who is all kindness, Christ who reigns in justice, and the Holy Spirit who recreates our every moment. Amen. In...

Father Nicholas Lang
Nov 22, 20205 min read


The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
This sure ain’t no “God in heaven story” we get from Matthew today. What a grump—with all this business again about “the weeping and...

Father Nicholas Lang
Nov 15, 20205 min read


Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
Keep your lamps trimmed an burning, keep your lamps trimmed an burning, keep your lamps trimmed an burning for the time is drawing nigh:...

Father Nicholas Lang
Nov 8, 20205 min read


All Saints Day
In her book A Passion for Life, Joan Chittister, a progressive, Catholic Benedictine nun writes “For centuries the church has confronted...

Father Nicholas Lang
Nov 1, 20204 min read


The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost
A radio station once ran a contest in which the disc jockey invited listeners to tune in their station on their clock radios as their...

Father Nicholas Lang
Oct 25, 20204 min read


The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
An elderly man who is driving a bit erratically is stopped by the police around one in the morning and is asked where he is going at this...

Father Nicholas Lang
Oct 17, 20204 min read


The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Have you ever been invited to a wedding and really didn’t want to go? Maybe the bride or groom was the relative of a friend and you had...

Father Nicholas Lang
Oct 11, 20205 min read


The Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
This is really a horrible story, isn’t it? We might find this Gospel story even more disturbing having seen so much violence in our...

Father Nicholas Lang
Oct 4, 20204 min read


The Solemnity of St. Michael & All Angels
“It’s all in your imagination!” How many times has someone said that to you? How often might you have said it yourself? The question has...

Father Nicholas Lang
Sep 27, 20204 min read
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