The Better Part

Luke 9.28b-36   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus needs time to pray. He wants to...

Luke 1.1-4; 4.14-21   Click here to listen to the Gospel and Reflectio n Although we listen each week to the Word of God, this Sunday we...

Luke 3.15-16, 21-22   Click here to listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n At the close of the Christmas season, we leave the secret...

Luke 3.10-18   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n (Adults, in the Gospel for this Sunday the people ask John what they must do to...

Mark 9.30-37   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, the disciples start to fight! They are like...

Mark 8:27-35     Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n We know that people always feel curious about Jesus. They gather around him to...

Mark 8:27-35     Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n Jesus spends much time traveling around Galilee and the region across the...

Mark 7.31-37   Listen here to the Gospel and Reflectio n In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus has begun to travel again. Wherever he...

Mark 6.1-6 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection After several Sundays of hearing Jesus teach and travel around Israel, this Sunday we...

Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection For fifty days, we celebrated the great feast of Easter—Jesus rising from the dead...

John 15.1-8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus sounds like he plays a game with us. I am the vine,...

Mark 14.1-9 (full reading: Mark 14.1 - 15.47) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection This Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week when,...

John 3.14-21 (for the 6-9 yr old, just verses 14-16) Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus speaks...

Mark 9.2-10 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus and three of his closest friends go for a walk...

Mark 1.1-8 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection We are in the season of Advent, the time when we prepare for the feast of...

Mark 1.1-8 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The reading for this Sunday comes from the very beginning of the Gospel of St. Mark....

Matthew 24.36; 25.14-30 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, Jesus tells us another parable. It is...

Matthew 22.15-21 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Often in the Gospel readings we hear about Pharisees. Many of them are good and...

Matthew 22.1-14 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection (Another warning this week! The parable in the Gospel is another difficult one....

Matthew 16.13-20 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection Jesus and the disciples travel together for a long time. They spend so much...

Matthew 16.13-20 Listen here to the Gospel and Reflection The Gospel for this Sunday occurs after the disciples travel with Jesus for...

Matthew 17.1-9 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this Sunday, we hear Jesus taking three of his best friends away by...

Matthew 9.36 - 10.8 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that Jesus has a group of twelve people close to him. Sometimes the...

Matthew 28.16-20 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We know that after Jesus dies and rises to new life, never to die again, he spends...

John 14.15-21 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Last Sunday we listened to Jesus remind the disciples that the Good Shepherd goes ahead...

John 10:1-10 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection Many of us are very familiar with the image of the Good Shepherd. The Gospel for this...

John 20:1-18 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection (Adults, begin by reading the Gospel aloud to the child, unless the child is a very...

John 11.3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45 (full reading: John 11.1-45) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel for this Sunday, the fifth...

John 9.1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 (full reading: John 9.1-41) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel reading for this Sunday, Jesus...

John 4.5-15 (full reading: John 4.5-42) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection We have had two Sundays of Lent; now we come to the third...

John 4.5-15 (full reading: John 4.5-42) Listen to the Gospel and Reflection On the third Sunday of Lent, we hear a conversation Jesus has...

Matthew 17.1-9 Listen to the Gospel and Reflection In the Gospel this Sunday, we hear Jesus taking three of his best friends away by...

(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

(Adults, you could begin by lighting a candle and reading the Word of God to your child. Alternatively, you could read the first...

(You could begin by reading the scripture passage. Better yet, ask someone to read it to you. The Word of God is meant to be heard.) Luke...

(Adults, you could begin by reading the scripture passage to your child but it is a little confusing. Alternatively, read through the...

(Adults, this reflection considers simply the first verse of the Gospel reading, but hopefully somehow captures Jesus' meaning.) Luke...

(Adults, this reflection considers simply the first two verses of the Gospel reading, but hopefully somehow captures Jesus' meaning.)...

(Adults, you could begin by reading the first paragraph of the reflection to the child, then read the Gospel, and then continue with the...

Luke 24.44-53 We are reaching the end of the forty-nine days of the Easter season and soon will be celebrating the coming of the Holy...

(Adults, you could begin by reading the first paragraph of the reflection to the child, then read the Gospel, and then continue with the...

(Adults, you could begin by reading the first paragraph of the reflection to the child, then read the Gospel, and then continue with the...

(Begin by reading the Gospel. Sometimes it is good to have someone read it to you. The Word is meant to be heard.) Luke 6:17, 20-26 The...

(Begin by reading the Gospel. Sometimes it is good to have someone read it to you. The Word is meant to be heard.) Luke 4.21-30 Last week...

(Begin by reading the Gospel. Sometimes it is good to have someone read it to you. The Word is meant to be heard.) Luke 3.15-16, 21-22 At...

(Adults, in the Gospel for this Sunday the people ask John what they must do to prepare. For the youngest children, it is not important...

(Adults, you could read the first paragraph of the reflection to the child, then read the Gospel, and then continue with the reflection.)...

(Adults, you could read the first paragraph of the reflection to the child, then read the Gospel, and then continue with the reflection.)...

(Begin by reading the Gospel. Sometimes it is good to have someone read it to you. The Word is meant to be heard.) Mark 8:27-35 Jesus...