The Inner Word

9 Jun 2013

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

It’s very likely that at times in your life you have been doubted, mistrusted, or had your abilities questioned. As you can hear in this Sunday’s readings, Ezekiel, Saint Paul, and Jesus experienced the same thing.

2 Jun 2013

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

As you may be aware, the word Eucharist comes from the Greek for “thanksgiving”—in the gospel story this Sunday Christ, “gives thanks” at his last supper.

26 May 2013

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

The first reading talks about the important role of wisdom in the creation of the world and the “delight” wisdom found in humanity.

19 May 2013

Solemnity of Pentecost, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

In one of the gospel readings for the Solemnity of Pentecost, Jesus promises his disciples he will send his Spirit to them to “teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” “Teach” and “remind” go together in this passage. What is learned is what Christ has already taught and which the Spirit will remind us of.

12 May 2013

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

Whichever of the second readings you hear today, what they say are remarkably similar.

12 May 2013

Seventh Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

Saint Stephen was the church’s first martyr—“witness”—the first of those to “wash their robes,” in the words of the Book of Revelation, to die because they held to their faith in the face of hostility.

5 May 2013

Sixth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

From the most abstract theological arguments to comparisons to sunbeams and shamrocks, the Trinity has always been hard to explain.

28 Apr 2013

Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

Just last Sunday we heard in the Book of Revelation how those who worship before God’s throne “will not hunger or thirst anymore. . . . and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

21 Apr 2013

Fourth Sunday of Easter; Good Shepherd Sunday, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

In the passage from the Book of Revelation, something on the outside—the washing white of robes—symbolizes something on the inside—the faith of a person.

14 Apr 2013

Third Sunday of Easter, Cycle C

What’s in your heart?

Why praise God? Because, of course, God is worthy of praise. Praise, though, is also a response as well as an obligation, an expression of gratitude for forgiveness, for the blessings of life, and for the sacrifice of others.