LITURGY IN FOCUS

Au Fond Du Temple Saint (Bizet’s Friendship Duet from his opera “The Pearl Fishers”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGDAEc2-IQo This performance of the famous friendship duet, “From deep within the holy shrine” (au fond […]

For children Solomon Asks for Wisdom The Kingdom of Heaven The Pearl of Great Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDTDtB3eBU Treasure In the Field The Parable of the Hidden Treasure Hidden Treasure & The […]

Call to worship Today, we hear three parables about God’s generous, all-encompassing love. Each parable proclaims that the Kingdom of God is filled with mercy, acceptance and patience. We are […]

“Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves” (Vincent Van Gogh) A Proclamation an Explication of Wisdom Chapter 12 (Denise May) Versions of this week’s psalm These highlight the humility with which we can […]

Call to worship God is like a generous, wasteful farmer or gardener — throwing seed all over good and bad ground. God plants so generously in order to insure that […]

“Van Gogh: The Sower” Van Gogh’s “The Sower of Seed” In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh painted a series of pictures of a lonely figure moving across a plowed field, a […]

Call to worship Jesus came to bring us peace. He offered his light yoke for our shoulders to carry that we might carry God’s peace to all people. Our own […]

Meditations on this week’s gospel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H45j196vUGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbP2VVjQb2Q Gospel for children Music that celebrates this week’s message “Come to Me” (Weston Priory) “Come To Me O Weary Traveler” “Come to Me” […]

Homilies and reflections Sister Laudem Gloriae Two-minute homily The Rev. Adrian Farrelly Catholic Women Preach Crista Carrick Mahoney The First Reading (2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a) Elisha & the Shunammite Woman […]