by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jul 9, 2019 | Homily
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time–Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Deuteronomy 30:10-14 Moses said to the people: “If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, when...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jul 2, 2019 | Homily
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time-Cycle C-2019 FIRST READING Isaiah 66:10-14c Thus says the LORD: Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over her! Oh, that you may suck fully of the milk...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jun 29, 2019 | Homily
Scripture Readings: First Book of Kings 19:16-21; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Gospel According to Saint Luke 9:51-62 Whether young or old, poor or rich, people normally wish to be treated with respect and fairness. Jesus encountered a lack of...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jun 23, 2019 | Homily
Every year on June 24th the Church remembers in a special way the birth of the great prophet, John the Baptist. This is also the day of our yearly recalling the beginning of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, on June 24th, 1964. On that day our three founders,...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jun 21, 2019 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Genesis 14:18-20; First Letter of Saint Paul the Corinthians 11:23-26; Gospel According to Saint Luke 9:11-17 On the night before giving His life on the cross, Jesus instituted the Eucharist, the gift of his Body and Blood, in the form of...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jun 14, 2019 | Homily
Scripture Readings: Book of Proverbs 8:22-31; Letter to the Romans 5:1-5; Gospel According to Saint John 16:12-15 Each year on the Sunday following Pentecost, the Church celebrates the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, our belief that God is One and yet Three Persons:...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jun 6, 2019 | Homily
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13; John 20:19-23 The Solemnity of Pentecost is a splendid reminder of the universality of the love God has for us. At Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, the Church celebrates the powerful presence of God...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | May 29, 2019 | Homily
What does it matter for us today that Jesus ascended into heaven? While we hear it in both the first reading and gospel today, we also confess it every Sunday and Solemnity in the Creed: “He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.” This...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 27, 2019 | Homily
On April 30, 2000, Pope St. John Paul II designated the second Sunday after Easter to be a celebration of Divine Mercy. Why this day? This is the day which the Church proclaims that Jesus, “the first and the last,” whom we put to death by our sins, comes through our...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 16, 2019 | Homily
Homily for Easter Sunday Day Mass — Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached; how God...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 15, 2019 | Homily
EASTER VIGIL MASS–CYCLE C–2019 FIRST READING Genesis 1:1–2:2 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said,...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 13, 2019 | Homily
Good Friday 2019 FIRST READING Isaiah 52:13-53:12 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him–so marred was his look beyond human semblance and his appearance beyond that of the sons of...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 12, 2019 | Homily
Holy Thursday 2019 FIRST READING Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 9, 2019 | Homily
6th Sunday of Lent – Passion Sunday – Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Isaiah 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Apr 2, 2019 | Homily
5th Sunday of Lent – Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Isaiah 43:16-21 Thus says the Lord, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Mar 26, 2019 | Homily
4th Sunday of Lent, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Joshua 5:9a, 10-12 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Mar 19, 2019 | Homily
3rd Sunday of Lent, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the Lord appeared...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Mar 12, 2019 | Homily
2nd Sunday of Lent, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” Abram put his faith...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Mar 5, 2019 | Homily
1st Sunday of Lent, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Deuteronomy 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the Lord, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord,...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Feb 27, 2019 | Homily
8th Sunday of the Year, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Sirach 27:4-7 When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. The fruit...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Feb 20, 2019 | Homily
7th Sunday of the Year–Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziph with three thousand picked men of Israel, to search for David in the desert of Ziph. So David and Abishai went among...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Feb 13, 2019 | Homily
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time — Cycle C –2019 FIRST READING Jeremiah 17:5-8 Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a barren bush in the desert...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Feb 6, 2019 | Homily
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time-Cycle C-2019 FIRST READING Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other,...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jan 30, 2019 | Homily
4th Sunday of Ordinary Time–Cycle C– 2019 FIRST READING Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19 The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. But do you...
by Monastery of Christ in the Desert | Jan 23, 2019 | Homily
3rd Sunday of the Year, Cycle C–2019 FIRST READING Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, which consisted of men, women, and those children old enough to understand. Standing at one end of the open place that was before...
