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Luke 21.5-19 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 3-6 year olds (Adults, this Gospel speaks of end-times and the cost of...

Luke 20:27-38 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 9-12 year olds In the Gospel this Sunday, the Sadducees ask Jesus a trick question in...

Luke 20:27-38 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 6-9 year olds In this week's Gospel, some people called the Sadducees come to Jesus...

Luke 20:27-38 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 3-6 year olds This Sunday, we hear some people come to Jesus, trying to confuse him....

Luke 19:1-10 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Have you heard this gospel story before? It's kind of funny, because a grown man--a...

Luke 19:1-10 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Last week Jesus told a parable about a tax collector and this week he meets a real,...

Luke 19:1-10 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he...

Luke 18.9-14 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Begin by reading this reflection. We know, because Jesus tells us, that our prayer...

Luke 18.9-14 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In the Gospel this Sunday, Jesus tells a parable about how we should be when we pray....

Luke 18.9-14 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In the Gospel this Sunday, we hear Jesus talking about people praying. One of the...

Luke 18:1-8 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In today's Gospel, Jesus tells us a parable about prayer. We know that parables are...

Luke 18:1-8 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In today's Gospel, Jesus tells us a parable about prayer. We know that parables are...

Luke 18:1-8 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Parents: petitionary prayer is not natural to the 3-6 year old. Their prayer is...

Luke 17.11-19 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In today's gospel, Jesus performs a miracle. We need to know that miracles are not...

Luke 17.11-19 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C A strange thing happens in the Gospel we hear today. Ten people who are sick ask Jesus...

Luke 17.11-19 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C In the Gospel today, we hear about 10 people who are sick who ask Jesus for a gift....

Luke 17.5-10 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? Sometimes the things Jesus says,...

Luke 17.5-10 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless...

Luke 17.5-10 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C If you had faith the size of a mustard seed... What is faith? Faith is being certain of...

Luke 16.19-31 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C I was fortunate to study scripture with a Jewish rabbi last year. He taught us that...

Luke 16.19-31 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jesus tells another parable today. This one is about two very different men. One man...

Luke 16.19-31 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C (Parents, the parable in the Gospel for this Sunday does not have much to say to 3-6...

Luke 16:1-13 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Today's parable speaks about another person who is squandering property that...

Luke 16:1-13 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jesus tells a parable today about a man who has not been working honestly. We...