When my children were young, and I would catch them doing something they shouldn’t be doing, they would always ask, “How did you know?”

“Moms know everything,” I would reply.

Question of the Week, July 26, 2020, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Question of the Week, July 19,2020, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

Today’s Gospel (Matthew 13:24-43) gives us many glimpses:  a man who sowed good seed in his field, a mustard seed—the smallest of all seeds—that a person sowed in a field, and yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour. Jesus offers these examples in the form of parables, stories rich with symbols that ordinary folks like me can understand. 

Question of the Week, July 12, 2020, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

One of my favorite late-May rituals is cleaning out the flowerpots on my balcony and adding fresh soil before planting herbs and flowers. This means first pulling out any remaining dead roots or stray starts of weeds and plants so that each spring I have a fresh start to my humble garden. 

Question of the Week, July 5, 2020, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A