Sunday Sermon

Friends, the mountain is a great image throughout the Bible. It is the place where we go up and where God comes down to meet us. Today’s first reading from Isaiah orients us to three holy mountains of the Lord: first, the historical Mount Zion; second, its fulfillment in the heavenly Mount Zion; and third, a sort of “middle mountain” of the Mass, where we raise our minds and hearts to God, who comes to gather us, to speak his word, and to feed us.

Mass ReadingsReading 1 — Is 25:6-10a
Psalm — Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Reading 2 — Phil 4:12-14, 19-20
Gospel — Mt 22:1-14

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St. Dominic and the Rosary

Quebec, 1942

There is a glorious legend

Of the times now passed away,

Of the the times when faith was brighter

Than it is in this our day―

When the hearts of men were keener, 

For the things that are above―

For the glory of their Master

And the Mother of his Love.

A darksome cloud had risen

O'er the sweet and smiling earth,

And it fell upon the patriarch

And the infant at its birth:

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