The Final Reflection

Readings for	Date
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, through one person’s encounter with theologian Ada María Isasi-Díaz, we invite you to reflect on the individual and communal dimensions of our vocations given to us in baptism. In Catholic soc…	18 Jan, 2026	Read More
Epiphany Sunday To recognize that different religious traditions offer distinctive insights into the nature of Ultimate Reality. Today we invite you to explore the magi’s discernment of the Spirit as outside of our…	4 Jan, 2026	Read More
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God To reverence Mary as a person with agency: Today we invite you to explore Mary as Theotokos–God-Bearer; engage with our communal struggle for a brand new day in our church; and embody the suffering a…	1 Jan, 2026	Read More
Christmas Mass During the Day To have an ecological conversion: Today we invite you to explore the ecological implications of Christmas using Elizabeth’s Johnson’s perspective of the incarnation; engage with Pope Francis’ call fo…	25 Dec, 2025	Read More
A Final Reflection on the Just Word This week we invite you to reflect on the Just Word Commentary with its coordinators, Ben and Tess!	25 Dec, 2025	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Advent To reimagine lineage: Today we invite you to explore lineage with Patricia Datchuck Sánchez; engage with Thomas Berry’s Principles of the Universe; and embody the belief that Earth is our common home…	21 Dec, 2025	Read More
Third Sunday of Advent To prophetic imagination: Today we invite you to explore how God’s creation teaches us about God’s kindom of peace and justice, to engage the “see-judge-act method” in the Catholic social tradition…	14 Dec, 2025	Read More
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe To grapple with multiple narratives: Today we invite you to explore how one person’s encounter with Gudalupe has been and continues to be transformative; engage with Guadalupe’s historic and current…	12 Dec, 2025	Read More
Second Sunday of Advent To celebrate the LGBTQI community: Today we invite you to explore a reorientation to the Church’s teaching on queerness from Jesus’ cross to Jesus’ birth through the work of Paul G. Crowley SJ; engag…	7 Dec, 2025	Read More
First Sunday of Advent Year A To disarm: Today we invite you to explore Isaiah’s vision of disarmament; engage with Pope Francis’ firm condemnation of possessing nuclear weapons; and embody the creative enactment of turning sword…	30 Nov, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of Christ the King Today we invite you to explore the meaning of kingship and nobility with the Quechua nobleman and Catholic chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; engage the differences between Spanish colonizers’ i…	23 Nov, 2025	Read More
Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore times of apocalypse in the Bible and now; engage the truth of empire’s prioritization of different lives; and embody a free Palestine with Visio Divina and the artwork…	16 Nov, 2025	Read More
Feast of the Lateran Basilica Today we invite you to explore the fallibility of human institutions, and their reliance on the grace of God to exist and thrive; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s prioritization of people over insti…	9 Nov, 2025	Read More
All Souls Day Today we invite you to explore the Church’s complicity in the erasure of the Palestinian genocide; engage how we avoid the genocide of Palestinians; and embody non-complicity with a contemplative exe…	2 Nov, 2025	Read More
Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the humility and openness to growth that it takes to advance towards social justice, with the concept of metanoia; engage a story of metanoia from the author; and embod…	26 Oct, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the structures of the Church and the maintenance of the sacred; engage paradoxicality in Christian theology; and embody paradoxical interdependence with an exercise.	19 Oct, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the story of Naaman through a decolonial lens, asking what it means to encounter God beyond empire and boundary; engage the misuse of divine language in the face of ri…	12 Oct, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore our cries out for justice in a time of great suffering; engage the arc of justice, with the help of “Oscar Romero’s Prayer”; and embody our work with a contemplative e…	5 Oct, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the individual and structural issues of injustice, now and in Jesus’s time; engage the everyday, communal work of antifascism; and embody this work with relational enga…	28 Sep, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the book of Amos and its demand to the wealthy to dismantle systems of oppression and exploitation that their lives are built upon; engage with the assassination of Pal…	21 Sep, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore idolatry and the God who brought us out of Egypt; engage Simone Weil’s resistance to idolatry; and embody this resistance with the help of contemplative questions	14 Sep, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore love through indifference to difference, with the help of anthropologist Naisargi Davé; engage non-hierarchical, transformative love; and embody this love with the help…	7 Sep, 2025	Read More
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore a rich humility that allows us to live in solidarity; engage putting our tradition into action; and embody this tradition with the example of L’Arche communities.	31 Aug, 2025	Read More
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s response to the question: “Will only a few be saved?”; engage the theology of MM Thomas to create a fuller interfaith theology for Christianity; and embody a na…	24 Aug, 2025	Read More
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the idea of ‘peace’ and the reality of Jesus’s work; engage our own fear in the face of Christ’s call; and embody the disruption of false peace with the help of the Cat…	17 Aug, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of the Assumption Today we invite you to explore the heart of the Christian tradition through Mary’s Song; engage the role of the monastery in understanding this tradition; and embody this approach to the tradition wi…	15 Aug, 2025	Read More
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore hope in God’s promises amidst great injustice; engage the call to emulate the ancient Israelites in their solidarity with one another; and embody the struggle against…	10 Aug, 2025	Read More
Feast of the Transfiguration Today we invite you to explore the liberative message of the transfiguration; engage parallels between Zen Buddhist thought and socially engaged contemplative Christianity; and embody uplifting our s…	6 Aug, 2025	Read More
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the nothingness described in Ecclesiastes through the social upheaval and disillusionment of the Jewish people during the time of its authorship; engage the parallels b…	3 Aug, 2025	Read More
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the power of scorched earth practices through city homelessness sweeps; engage the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as one, not about homosexuality, but about oppression; an…	27 Jul, 2025	Read More
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Invitation: Today we invite you to explore Mary Magdalene’s accompaniment with the help of Cole Arthur Riley and Rita Houlihan; engage Mary’s witness with the Los Angeles protests against ICE raids;…	22 Jul, 2025	Read More
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Eternity and the limits of time, with the help of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel; engage the Gospel story of Mary and Martha through a non-binary lens; and embody the spe…	20 Jul, 2025	Read More
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the parable of the Good Samaritan as one that makes us ask: how do we change the dangerous road?; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s Two Feet of Love in Action, with the…	13 Jul, 2025	Read More
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the liberation of our bodies through the rest we need; engage the necessity of rest to sustain our work; and embody this rest with an exercise.	6 Jul, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul Today we invite you to explore emptying ourselves, and “cooperating with God’s grace” to find the hope we seek in these times; engage the Palestinian and Gazan struggle against “the jaws of death,” a…	29 Jun, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of Corpus Christi Today we invite you to explore the spiritual dimension of our physical needs here on earth; engage lessons in sharing of the earth from St. Basil of Caesarea; and embody the spiritual in the physical…	22 Jun, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Today we invite you to explore Wisdom as a someone, not a commodified thing we acquire; engage Catholic thinkers on how we meet and encounter wisdom; and embody wisdom with silence.	15 Jun, 2025	Read More
Pentecost Sunday Today we invite you to explore the powerful fire of Pentecost in today’s world; engage God as in the collective; and embody God in our movements with resistance to Cop City in Atlanta.	8 Jun, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of the Ascension Today we invite you to explore the disciples’ confusion after Jesus’s ascension, with the help of Edward Schillebeeckx; engage Pope Francis’s rebuke of repression in the US; and embody resistance wi…	1 Jun, 2025	Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore by taking inventory of your community and the challenges and struggles it faces, with the help of Harriet Tubman; engage what resources of praise and worship look like;…	25 May, 2025	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the building of church and community with the example of Helen Caldwell Day Riley’s Catholic Worker; engage Helen’s legacy in Memphis; and embody creating communities o…	18 May, 2025	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the relationship between hope and lament with the help of Delores Williams’ womanist theology; engage the story of Hagar in the wilderness as one of covenant with God i…	11 May, 2025	Read More
Third Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore ourselves as the body of God with the help of theologian M. Shawn Copeland; engage Copeland’s womanist critique of the Catholic Church; and embody survival in these tim…	4 May, 2025	Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the resurrection as symbolizing a transcendent world; engage faith as a question of courage; and embody faith and doubt with the examples of martyrs in Palestine and Ce…	27 Apr, 2025	Read More
Easter Sunday Today we invite you to explore the resurrection in relation to the Reign of God as a danger to the elite; to engage by caring for the Earth with the help of Laudato si’; and to embody these ideas wi…	20 Apr, 2025	Read More
Easter Vigil Today we invite you to explore generational trauma and memory in the Bible and in our lives; engage how Christians have been resistors of empire, instead of promoters of it; and embody out connectio…	19 Apr, 2025	Read More
Good Friday Today, we invite you to explore the lessons of justice and suffering in today’s readings; engage the theology of Black spirituals with the help of womanist theology; and embody these teachings with…	18 Apr, 2025	Read More
Holy Thursday Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s learnings from Mary and Martha; engage Jesus’s emulation of women during The Last Supper; and embody lessons from this Gospel story, and the women who care for…	17 Apr, 2025	Read More
Palm Sunday Today we invite you to explore the Passion’s parallels to our current time of deportation and fascism; engage our shared exhaustion and our solidarity with one another as we search for God in this ti…	13 Apr, 2025	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Lent Today, we invite you to explore the desert of Lent with the help of Ivone Gebara’s relatedness, God in all things; engage the wisdom of our bodies as we organize together; and embody interconnectedn…	6 Apr, 2025	Read More
Fourth Sunday in Lent Today we invite you to explore the Prodigal Son with the help of Henri Nouwen; engage the lessons of the Gospel story; and embody these lessons with the help of Nouwen’s reflections on Rembrandt’s “T…	30 Mar, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of the Annunciation of Jesus Today, we invite you to engage trust in God in challenging times, through Mary’s choices; engage trust in the Divine can lead us to seeking our own power; and embody trust in God with voices from our…	25 Mar, 2025	Read More
Third Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore the symbolism of Jesus’s time in the wilderness; engage where we feel God present in our bodies, through the thinking of Simone Weil; and embody the wilderness, sufferi…	23 Mar, 2025	Read More
Second Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore light and darkness in the readings and in the world with the help of James Baldwin; engage the needs of your community and how you can be light with the help of Baldwin…	16 Mar, 2025	Read More
First Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore the rejection of temptation and dominating power with the help of theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether; engage Ruether’s vision of communal societies; and embody our v…	9 Mar, 2025	Read More
Ash Wednesday Today we invite you to explore our own redirection away from cycles of harm; engage a reconnection with our ancestral tending of cycles of birth and death; and embody new cycles with a contemplation…	5 Mar, 2025	Read More
Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore blindness and the class divide in the Gospel of Luke; unearth the Lukan centering of the Kingdom of God on Earth, with the help of Peter Maurin; and embody the kingdom…	2 Mar, 2025	Read More
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the definition of love through both the Beatitudes and Jesus’s warning to the rich; engage Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s definition of love as he began the Poor Pe…	23 Feb, 2025	Read More
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore our current political climate through today’s readings; engage hope without spiritual bypassing; and embody a critical hope with the help of “Nobody Knows” and the USCC…	16 Feb, 2025	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore transformation and forgiveness in this week’s readings, in light of ecological crisis and collapse in our time; engage our own guilt and despair as we confront injustic…	9 Feb, 2025	Read More
Presentation of the Lord Today we invite you to explore prophecy, time, and age with the help of the prophets Anna and Simeon; engage connections between environmental protection and ageing; and embody questions of time and…	2 Feb, 2025	Read More
Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare Today we invite you to explore faith, and a return to earth-centered faith practices with the example of St. Brigid of Kildare; engage Brigid as an example of creating and maintaining embodied faith…	1 Feb, 2025	Read More
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the localization of global politics and unrest through a critical reflection on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians; engage our neighbors in true work for justice; a…	26 Jan, 2025	Read More
Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore Jesus’s first miracle as a sign of joy and abundance; engage our sources of joy and connection as we re-enter a more dangerous political climate; and embody joy, abund…	19 Jan, 2025	Read More
Baptism of Jesus Today we invite you to explore the Baptism of Jesus as a call to inclusion and equality; engage how we can follow this ministry in our own communities; and embody Jesus’s ministry with the help of re…	12 Jan, 2025	Read More
The Epiphany of the Lord Today we invite you to explore the Feast of the Epiphany with the spiritual connection between our interior and exterior worlds; engage unknown paths and trust in God, with the example of the Magi; a…	5 Jan, 2025	Read More
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Today we invite you to explore the importance of women’s realities and perspectives in Jesus’s birth; engage mothering and maternal analogies of the Church; and embody the experiences of those who gi…	1 Jan, 2025	Read More
Feast of the Holy Family Today we invite you to expand the meaning and idea of family, with the help of Mary and Joseph’s mission, and Marxist philosophy; engage 20th century philosophers’ critiques and hopes for the idea of…	29 Dec, 2024	Read More
The Nativity of the Lord Today we invite you to explore the tempo of the season with the rejection of a commercialized Christmas; engage the spark of life and creativity in ourselves and reject capitalism with the example of…	25 Dec, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore Black Catholics’ leadership and participation in Black emancipation and autonomy in the early Americas; engage the history of Black Catholic militant resistance to slav…	22 Dec, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore what is to be done in this season of Advent, with the example of the Young Lords; engage the message of today’s gospel in line with the solidarity actions of the Young…	15 Dec, 2024	Read More
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Today we invite you to explore the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe with her decolonial message; engage decolonial Catholicism with examples of Pope Francis’s words; and embody the significance of this…	12 Dec, 2024	Read More
Feast of the Immaculate Conception Today we invite you to explore the sanitizing of Mary’s life and Jesus’s conception; engage the oppression of poor and marginalized people and women through Mary’s story; and embody a liberative appr…	9 Dec, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore how we build community with the example of the Unión de Vecinos; engage how we find hope in the community we build; and embody what salvation in community looks like wi…	8 Dec, 2024	Read More
First Sunday of Advent Today, we invite you to explore lessons from the Zapatistas, a revolutionary movement for land and indigenous autonomy in southern Mexico; engage its lessons for collective liberation, in tandem with…	1 Dec, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of Christ the King Today, we invite you to explore the apocalyptic imagination, which encourages us to embrace the spiritual struggle between the pull of two kingdoms; engage the question of how we read apocalyptic te…	24 Nov, 2024	Read More
Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the vocation of adventuring; engage the teachings of Creation Spirituality to embrace this adventure; and embody these lessons with the help of Howard Thurman and “Tid…	17 Nov, 2024	Read More
Thirty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the God who comes through the poor and dispossessed, with the help of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign; engage the truth of liberation theology in Catho…	10 Nov, 2024	Read More
Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the question of who is our neighbor in the United States, with the help of Dorothy Day and Paulo Freire; engage the Christian call for dismantling empire with the examp…	3 Nov, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of All Saints Today we invite you to explore who makes up the communion of saints in our world; engage leadership in our church and communities with the help of the model of the Freedom Church of the Poor; and emb…	1 Nov, 2024	Read More
Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore a decolonial theology with the help of liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel; engage a recentering of theology to ‘the side of the road;’ and embody decoloniality with…	27 Oct, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s insistence that glory is in care for the other, not in status and power; engage Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani’s message from occupied Pa…	20 Oct, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Eight Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the meaning of wealth and riches in today’s readings; engage our personal stake in giving up wealth; and embody the communality of true wealth with contemplative quest…	13 Oct, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore how people with diverse perspectives can help shape – and even interrupt – our Church’s obsession with debates about family life; engage how the realities of families a…	6 Oct, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time This week we are pleased to offer two excellent entries for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This entry, by Ben Randolph, invites you to explore the fallacy of individualistic wellbeing through a co…	29 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time This week we are pleased to offer two excellent entries for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This entry, by Jason Steidl Jack, invites you to explore who has spiritual authority with the help of fra…	29 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the decolonial mission of Jesus, with the help of Frantz Fanon; engage the importance of children in our politics and religion; and embody decolonial love with the help…	22 Sep, 2024	Read More
Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen Today, we invite you to explore the relationship between nature and prayer in the life of St. Hildegard, with the help of Gloria Durka; engage Catholic Social Teaching through ecological justice; and…	17 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s alternative to empire; engage the idea of ‘losing ourselves’ through the concept of the universal church; and embody solidarity with a contemplative exercise an…	15 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the necessity of attentiveness to disability in today’s readings, and the disabling nature of war, particularly in the example of Palestine; engage Catholic Social Teac…	8 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore our readings’ calls to be doers, and not just hearers of the Word; to engage Catholic Social Teaching’s tenets, and the relationship between the preferential option fo…	1 Sep, 2024	Read More
Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore certain biblical passages as ‘texts of terror’ with the help of feminist theologians; engage the brokenness of the Church and our world with the liberating vision of Pa…	25 Aug, 2024	Read More
Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the the eroticism of embodied faith; engage the erotic as a source of strength, despite its demonization in the Church, with the help of Audre Lorde; and embody the ero…	18 Aug, 2024	Read More
Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the importance of our own nourishment, and the role of uncertainty in justice struggles; engage the demands of communal wellbeing in Catholic Social Teaching; and embo…	11 Aug, 2024	Read More
Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore survival, and the bread of life as the literal feeding of all, not just a spiritualized idea of Jesus; engage Catholic teaching on labor and its connection to communit…	4 Aug, 2024	Read More
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the feeding of the crowds by understanding the labor that went into creating the food; engage the lessons of labor from Karl Marx to interpret Jesus’s stories; and embo…	28 Jul, 2024	Read More
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Today amidst “a hot and stressful summer,” we invite you to follow the model of Mary Magdalene, who kept an eye out for unexpected sources of hope and wasn’t afraid to talk about them; engage the par…	22 Jul, 2024	Read More
Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the quest for solidarity in our communities, amidst division, with the help of today’s readings; engage the call to know our neighbors; and embody robust community with…	21 Jul, 2024	Read More
Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore change-making in the dominant culture of doing more, with the help of Thomas Merton; engage the call for workers’ rest in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody work and…	14 Jul, 2024	Read More
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Ordinary Time through a renewing prophetic imagination, with the help of Walter Brueggemann; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s highest expectations with the help of pro…	7 Jul, 2024	Read More
Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore today’s readings as they reflect on the mission of The Just Word Commentary, half-way through; engage the kind of love Catholicism embodies, with a reflection from Ben…	30 Jun, 2024	Read More
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the power of water in our readings, and the interconnection between exploitation of the earth and the exploitation of women and the oppressed; engage Pope Francis’s Lau…	23 Jun, 2024	Read More
Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the parables of the sower and the mustard seed through an ecoliberationist lens; engage the history of English religious reformers who reclaimed common land for the peo…	16 Jun, 2024	Read More
Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore how the readings depict who/what God is; engage messages from liberation theology and Binding the Strong Man depicting God as the poor; and embody God-as-poor with a co…	9 Jun, 2024	Read More
Corpus Christi Today we invite you to explore community and retreat with the help of the theology of divinization; engage Catholic Social Teaching on war and peace; and embody these examples with the help of a hear…	2 Jun, 2024	Read More
Trinity Sunday Today we invite you to explore the Spirit “written upon our hearts” with the help of Fr. Richard Rohr and a mature spirituality; engage lessons from the Church’s transition to Vatican II, and its mov…	26 May, 2024	Read More
Feast of Pentecost Today we invite you to explore the Holy Spirit through fire and water, with the help of Rachel Held Evans; engage Spirit for Catholics through our teachings; and embody the Holy Spirit with the help…	19 May, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of the Ascension Today we invite you to explore ‘making a way out of no way’ with the help of womanist theologians; engage the Jewish tradition of Passover, and its examples of hope and liberation that Christians can…	12 May, 2024	Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore God’s openness to all, through a Queer lens; engage Catholic teaching on the family, and reimagine the meaning of family through Queer and feminist lenses; and embody…	5 May, 2024	Read More
Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker Today we invite you to explore the sacredness of labor through the Hebrew Bible, and the political nature of work and rest; engage the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker through the lessons of Internati…	1 May, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the role of carceral violence in repression, through Jesus’s disciples in the Acts of the Apostles; engage the reality of the carceral state through the U.S. Bishops’ l…	28 Apr, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore the reality of ecological martyrdom, on this Earth Day; engage the Christian lineage of ecomartyrs with the help of Saint Óscar Romero and the Latin American bishops of…	21 Apr, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore condemnation and moral authority in the scriptures; return to the gospels as good news, with the help of Fr. Dan Berrigan; and embody liberation instead of dread in the…	14 Apr, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Today we invite you to explore communality and redistribution of resources as shown in the gospels; engage solidarity with the poor as a sacramental action; and embody this necessity to a deep solida…	7 Apr, 2024	Read More
Easter Sunday Today we invite you to explore embodiment – Jesus’s and our own – with the help of queer theologians; engage the possibility of reconciliation as an act of self-respect, instead of one of sin absolut…	31 Mar, 2024	Read More
Good Friday Today we invite you to explore the Black, liberatory theology of James Cone; engage Cone’s condemnation of the continued lynching of Black people, with The Cross and the Lynching Tree; and embody wha…	29 Mar, 2024	Read More
Holy Thursday Today we invite you to explore a reimagined relationship between the minister and one who receives ministry, with liberation theologian Leonardo Boff; engage your call to ministry with the help of Ca…	28 Mar, 2024	Read More
Palm Sunday Today, we invite you to explore Jesus as a grassroots organizer against empire; engage Catholic Social Teaching through solidarity; and savor God’s abundance to organize for the world we know is poss…	24 Mar, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore the anti-empire messages in the Gospel of John; engage the message of solidarity in Catholic Social Teaching and in the Gospels; and embody solidarity against empire wi…	17 Mar, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and “costly grace”; engage resistance to the Nazi regime in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody resistance in the model of Jesus…	10 Mar, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore Jesus driving out the money changers and the sellers in the temple; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the lessons of Catholic resistors; and embody these lessons…	3 Mar, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore Paul as an organizer against empire; engage Catholic Social Teaching through base communities and liberation theology; and embody anti-empire organizing with the help…	25 Feb, 2024	Read More
First Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore God’s commitment to land and human dignity through the Haitian Revolution against colonization; engage our own Catholic Social teaching themes, made deeper through an u…	18 Feb, 2024	Read More
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore healing in the Bible and through decolonization with the help of Frantz Fanon; engage the Catholic Church’s use of abuse and colonization; and embody healing and decolo…	11 Feb, 2024	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Job’s suffering and the healing story in Mark through the lens of disability theology; engage Catholic thought on the human Christ, and the reality of ableism in our ch…	4 Feb, 2024	Read More
Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare Today we invite you to explore Brigid, the woman, saint, and goddess of Kildare, Ireland, and her messages of care for the poor and peace; engage Brigid’s role as connector to the earth and to a deco…	1 Feb, 2024	Read More
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore demons and demonization in the Bible, through the book of Mark and the Messianic Secret; engage with tools for justice in Catholic Social Teaching; and embody justice a…	28 Jan, 2024	Read More
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Today we invite you to explore the apostle Paul’s warnings about time, and consider our relationship now to limited time; engage Pope Francis’s Laudate deum and the questions of time, climate emergen…	21 Jan, 2024	Read More
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the phrase “Here I Am” with the help of Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas; engage the Catholic Social Teaching principle of subsidiary, and its implications for harm…	14 Jan, 2024	Read More
Feast of the Epiphany Today we invite you to explore Herod’s reaction to the announcement of a newborn king, and Hebrew Bible prophecies, with the help of Quaker Palestinian activist Jean Zaru; engage how Catholic Social…	7 Jan, 2024	Read More
Solemnity of Mary Mother of God Today, we invite you to explore “living in the likeness of Mary” through attentiveness to our ancestral and collective suffering; engage Catholic traditions of hermitage and contemplation to aid our…	1 Jan, 2024	Read More
Christmas Mass During the Night Today we invite you to explore the incarnation of God in Jesus, and the relatedness of hope and despair, dark and light; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s call to solidarity, as this call features in…	25 Dec, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the possibility of the illegitimate conception of Jesus, with the help of Catholic biblical scholar Jane Schaberg; engage the (lack of) traditional Catholic Social Teac…	24 Dec, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Advent Today, Alex Moore explores the necessity of nonhuman life for human life, with the help of Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai; engages Catholic Social Teaching in its use of water for ritu…	17 Dec, 2023	Read More
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Today we invite you to explore Our Lady of Guadalupe through the eyes of a Palestinian woman, and with the help of Palestinian Christian Mitri Raheb and theologian Ada María Isasi-Díaz; engage the hi…	12 Dec, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the dying unto ourselves of Advent, with the help of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; engage Catholic Social Teaching on baptism and against the destruction of the earth; and embod…	10 Dec, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Today we invite you to critically explore the caricatures of Eve and Mary in patriarchal Christianity, with the help of scholar Patricia Lynn Reilly; engage Catholic Social Teaching through contempla…	8 Dec, 2023	Read More
First Sunday of Advent Today we invite you to explore the beginning of Advent with an analysis of the apocalyptic time that Jesus invokes, and what it has to do with the social order; engage Catholic Social Teaching throug…	3 Dec, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of Christ the King Today, we invite you to explore the Solemnity of Christ the King by examining the motives behind its establishment, with the help of an empire-critical analysis; compare Catholic Social Teaching and…	26 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the Parable of the Talents, understood from the third servant’s perspective; engage Catholic Social Teaching on rights and responsibilities; and embody bringing our per…	19 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore life on earth and after death through Black spirituals; engage Catholic Social Teaching on disposability and end of life care; and contemplate how love, relationship…	12 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the ancient Jewish group, the Pharisees, and Jesus’s condemnation of Pharisees contextualized as in-group disagreements among Jewish people; and engage the anti-Semitis…	5 Nov, 2023	Read More
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore loving our neighbors with the help of Simone Weil; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the U.S. Bishops’ pastoral letter Strangers no Longer; and embody the other…	29 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s words to “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar,” with the help of philosopher Jacques Ellul; engage Catholic Social Teaching with the U.S. Bishops’ pastoral le…	22 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore Psalm 23 through the music of the American Civil Rights movement, with Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson, and Marian Anderson.	15 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we unite in the spirit of solidarity and righteous anger against the injustices of capitalism and imperialism. Let our reflection and action through Catholic tradition and Catholic Social Teac…	8 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore forgiveness and sacramentality, and practical embodiment with the help of M. Shawn Copeland and Enfleshing Freedom; embody Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on sacra…	1 Oct, 2023	Read More
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore the world behind Jesus’s parable in Matthew with the help of historical theologian Richard Horsley; engage with Catholic Social Teaching’s legacy of labor justice and i…	24 Sep, 2023	Read More
Feast of Hildegard von Bingen Today, we invite you to explore Hildegard von Bingen’s life, experienced with chronic pain, with the help of disability theology; embody Catholic Social Teaching’s focus on dignity, participation, an…	17 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the mystery of forgiveness with the help of philosopher Hannah Arendt; engage the centrality of mercy in Catholic Social Teaching and its relation to justice and forgi…	17 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore displacement and suffering in the Bible and in our times with the help of theologian Catherine Keller; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s emphasis on family, community…	10 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary time Today, we invite you to explore the experiences of the prophets through Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s examination of Jeremiah; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s fraught relationship with self-care;…	3 Sep, 2023	Read More
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the preferential option for the poor with the help of theologian Orlando Espín, and the meaning of Peter as “the rock”; engage Catholic Social Teaching through the ori…	27 Aug, 2023	Read More
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman with the help of feminist theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and the kingdom of God on earth; engage Catholic Social Te…	20 Aug, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary Today, we invite you to explore Mary, the Magnificat, and the Church’s use of Mary to oppress women; engage Catholic Social Teaching’s helpful and unhelpful views on women’s roles; and embody mothers…	15 Aug, 2023	Read More
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore types of rupture with the help of Activist Theology; engage sacred rupture, and how Catholic Social Teaching can help us with this task; and embody questions of sacred…	13 Aug, 2023	Read More
Feast of the Transfiguration Today, we invite you to explore transformation and transfiguration through theological reflection on transgender experiences; engage and combat Catholic Social Teaching that is harmful to trans peopl…	6 Aug, 2023	Read More
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Please note: In 2023, The Feast of the Transfiguration, takes precedence over the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, which is not celebrated this year. Today, we invite you to explore Jesus’s healings by…	6 Aug, 2023	Read More
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the sacred throughout our world with the help of Pop Art artist and longtime nun Corita Kent; engage Catholic Social Teaching with Pope Francis’s Evangelii gaudium and…	30 Jul, 2023	Read More
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore Jesus’s yeast metaphor for describing the kindom of God with the help of French theologian Marie-Dominique Chenu; engage the worker-focused vision of Catholic Social T…	23 Jul, 2023	Read More
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene Today, we invite you to explore who Mary Magdalene was with the help of feminist scholar Elizabeth Johnson; engage official Church teachings, both inaccurate and accurate, about Mary Magdalene; and e…	22 Jul, 2023	Read More
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore our call to be stewards of creation with the help of Peter Maurin’s Catholic Worker “Agronomic Universities”; engage integral ecology and sustainability through Cathol…	16 Jul, 2023	Read More
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore children’s wisdom, and how slavery and racism have so deeply damaged the United States, with the help of Wendell Berry; engage the concept of synodality in the Catholi…	9 Jul, 2023	Read More
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the crucified people of the world with the help of Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J.; engage the centrality of concern for the poor, solidarity, and work for liberation in Cath…	2 Jul, 2023	Read More
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore the centrality of economic justice and flourishing in Catholic thought and ethics; engage the responsibility of economic justice with the help of Pope Francis’s encycl…	25 Jun, 2023	Read More
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to explore disability, healing, and cure in the Jesus narratives with the help of scholar Kathy Black; engage Catholic Social Teaching, Dignity of the Human Person, disability th…	18 Jun, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Today, we invite you to explore how Catholic nuns are connecting eucharistic theology with ecological eating; engage with Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew, the “Green Patriarch” of the Eastern…	11 Jun, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Today, we invite you to explore the idol worship of white supremacy in the United States with the help of William Stringfellow; engage Catholic social thought from below with the help of leftist and…	4 Jun, 2023	Read More
Pentecost Today, we invite you to explore the descent of the Holy Spirit to communities fighting oppression, through the Pentecost connections to the Detroit Uprising, and the People’s Tribunal at the Shrine o…	28 May, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Ascension Today, we invite you to explore the Feast of the Ascension while examining the theologian and Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuría’s understanding and commitment to reality and our engagement with it; eng…	21 May, 2023	Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the Holy Spirit that stretches through time, as we approach Pentecost, with the help of womanist theologian Monica Coleman; engage the Holy Spirit through Catholic Soc…	14 May, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the “Last Supper Discourse,” and the fate awaiting Jesus’s disciples, with the help of liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez; engage Catholic Social Teaching through…	7 May, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the Acts of the Apostles, and Peter’s reflection on the separation between God’s creation and humanity, with the help of liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez; engag…	30 Apr, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore women’s role in Jesus’s revelation, and its connections to women’s ordination; engage Pope Francis’s thoughts on the role of discernment in Catholic Social Teaching; a…	23 Apr, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Easter Today, we invite you to explore the disciples’ (and our) hiding behind locked doors, and communal theology and activism; engage Catholic Social Teaching on active theology with Pope Francis’s message…	16 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Sunday Today, we invite you to explore women at the forefront of human history, and the Easter story with the help of Asian feminist theologian Kwok Pui-lan; engage the importance of solidarity in Catholic…	9 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Vigil Today, we invite you to explore the hope of new life in the face of death-dealing racism with the help of Kelly Brown Douglas; engage the Catholic Church’s concept of human dignity as a challenge to…	8 Apr, 2023	Read More
Easter Vigil Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s death through our own grief and loss; engage death as life through the Roger LaPorte and Daniel Berrigan; and embody the idea that “death does not have the last…	8 Apr, 2023	Read More
Good Friday Today, we invite you to explore Jesus Christ’s death by way of James Cone’s prophetic meditation on the cross and the lynching tree; engage with the successes and limitations of the American bishops’…	7 Apr, 2023	Read More
Holy Thursday Today, we invite you to explore the Gospel story of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, with biblical ethicist William Spohn; engage with ideas of labor justice by considering the devaluation of labor…	6 Apr, 2023	Read More
Palm Sunday Today, we invite you to explore the complex qualities of the Passion narrative, with the help of our author, and Jesuit mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; engage Christ’s way of love in Catholic Soci…	2 Apr, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore dialogue between Lakota worldviews and Catholicism, through Heȟáka Sápa, or Black Elk; engage Catholic Social Teaching on care for the Earth, and consider the Earth as…	26 Mar, 2023	Read More
Solemnity of the Annunciation Today, we invite you to explore historical details that bring us closer to understanding Mary as a real human being, with the help of feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson; engage how Catholic Social…	25 Mar, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday of Lent Today, we invite you to explore the painful context of the Gospel of John’s depiction of Jews and Judaism through the insights of the Jewish New Testament scholar, Adele Reinhartz; engage the change…	19 Mar, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well through theologian Elizabeth Johnson’s feminist approach; engage the importance of dialogue for both lay people a…	12 Mar, 2023	Read More
Second Sunday of Lent Today, with the help of Saint Augustine, we invite you to explore God’s call to awaken and find God’s transfiguring power in ourselves; engage Catholic social teaching in Gustavo Gutiérrez’s message…	5 Mar, 2023	Read More
First Sunday of Lent Today we invite you to explore how James Baldwin interprets God’s covenant with Noah; engage with the U.S. bishops’ letter on racism, and its shortcomings; and embody the difficult racial honesty tha…	27 Feb, 2023	Read More
Ash Wednesday Today we invite you to explore, with liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, the radical Lenten calling to prepare for God by becoming real neighbors to one another; to engage the concepts of Cathol…	22 Feb, 2023	Read More
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s culturally and historically specific “folk wisdoms,” and the theology of Jon Sobrino; engage Pope Francis’s writing on community and solidarity in Fratelli tutt…	19 Feb, 2023	Read More
Ash Wednesday Today we invite you to explore Ash Wednesday through either the retributive or the restorative God; engage Catholic teaching on queer people through the Vatican document that discusses “blessing same…	14 Feb, 2023	Read More
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Today we invite you to explore Jesus’s parables as a way to raise consciousness among the poor; engage the Catholic Church’s stated tenets of Catholic social teaching, and their undeniable message of…	12 Feb, 2023	Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time We invite you to reflect on our reading from Isaiah through Saint Oscar Romero’s vision that the Church choose to serve the world of the poor; engage with the concept of the “preferential option for…	5 Feb, 2023	Read More
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time In today’s offering, we will explore how scripture can inspire an “integral ecology” that brings together environmentalism with social justice, especially through the Beatitudes; we will engage Pope…	29 Jan, 2023	Read More
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Today, we invite you to consider themes of light, truth, and justice through the theology of Eleazar Fernandez; protest as a method for seeking justice as acknowledged in Catholic social teaching; an…	22 Jan, 2023	Read More