The lectionary reading for Trinity 16 in Year A is the parable of the workers in the vineyard in Matt 20.1–16. The epistle is ...

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard that we hear this Sunday is one of Jesus’ most challenging teachings about grace, justice, generosity, and the Kingdom of God. At first ...

Many prayers are associated with St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast day is July 31. (While churches and other apostolates under the care of the Jesuits, for whom Ignatius is the patron, celebrate his ...

A few summers ago, I had taken to driving to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., for Sunday vigil Mass. Most Sunday liturgies in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are so well-attended and ...

I sometimes think that the parables enjoy a popularity that may be misplaced. By this I do not mean to question their extraordinary composition or their radical religious message. It is just that we ...

We tend to resent the message of the parable of the vineyard, but it’s about God’s great generosity, not about what we’re owed. This sermon was the second-to-last sermon of an eight-week series on the ...