Reflections On The Sunday Gospel

Living as a Christian teen in today's world is a challenge, but there is help. Fr. Corey Brost's Gospel Connections for Teens connects weekly Gospel messages with teen ups and downs. In just twenty minutes a week, young people can read and reflect on the Gospel reading for the coming Sunday and an insightful reflection by Father Corey. His writings on Jesus's words and actions will prepare young people for the Sunday liturgy and encourage them to live their faith to the fullest!

Come Follow Me is a series of reflections based on the assigned Gospel reading for the Sundays of a liturgical year. It can facilitate both personal discipleship study of the Gospels as well promote small group discipleship discussions. It is useful for parishioners, homilists, and parish staff.

Pope Francis illuminates a new, vibrant way of experiencing the Gospel through moving, intimate, and deeply meditative reflections that encourage us to live fully with meaning, purpose, and strength. We live in an unprecedented time that has threatened to upend our daily rhythms, our work, our homes, even our faith. More than ever, we need books like Reflections on the Sunday Gospel to stir us to hope, to comfort, to peace. We need to remember what we live for and how good God is. These reflections—published in English for the first time, drawn both from homilies given by Pope Francis and readings from the Fathers of the Church, including Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, and Saint Ambrose—do more than offer a way to enter into the liturgical year with weekly readings to enrich your devotional time. They offer Christ, and the power of His resurrection. They offer His words of assurance: “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (Jn 16:33, ESV). Ultimately, as Pope Francis guides us through these timeless words, we will glean how even the giants of the faith needed God as much as we do, and how we can draw near to a good and faithful God no matter where we are or what season we’re in.

A collection of commentaries on the Sunday readings written for the benefit of homilists, laypeople and anyone who would like to prayerfully reflect on Luke's Gospel as we enter Liturgical Year C. Hogan takes a novel and contemporary approach to these re

In concluding his three volume series of reflections on the Sunday Gospels, Father Dowling throws light in a special way on the nuances to be found in the Gospel of Luke, which plays such a predominant role in Cycle C of the liturgical readings. Ever gender-conscious in his presentation of the teachings of Jesus, Luke made a special effort to follow a lesson in which a man was the protagonist with another in which a woman took the lead. Struck by Our Lord's predilection for the poor, the out-cast, the sick and the sinner, Luke highlights the kindness, the compassion, the empathy and the forgiving nature of Jesus. Drawing on his years of study and long experience as a homilist in a variety of settings, Father Dowling educates and inspires with these brief yet profound reflections in the hope of enriching the spiritual lives of those who make use of them. Homilist and average parishioners will find much to ponder here. All will appreciate the addition of the topical, liturgical and scriptural indices to his three-volume series present in this third book.

The Gospels call us to pattern our lives after that of Jeasus and, by bringing God's love to the world, to transform it into His Kingdom. The challenge of the Gospels is to resist the temptation to do evil and to employ all our energies in doing good, to take up our cross each day and follow Jesus. Each Sunday one or another aspect of that challenge is placed before us in these brief reflections on the Gospels for Cycle A of the liturgical readings.

A great book that offers readers an opportunity for daily prayer and spiritual enrichment. An excellent resource for homilists, catechists, liturgists, pastoral ministers, as well as those in the RCIA.