
“Hating” So As To Love
September 7, 2025 - Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) - Catholic Daily Reflections from My Catholic Life!


Discipleship Cannot Be Half-Hearted: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
In today’s Gospel, “great crowds were traveling with Jesus.” He turns to the crowd and delivers a stiff warning. Why? Gospel (Read Lk. 14:25-33) The Gospels often remind us of the sizable crowds that followed Jesus everywhere He went (see Mt. 5:1; Mk. 1:45; Jn. 6:10). We always equate large...

True discipleship in an age of easy believism


Four Depictions of Discipleship – A Homily for the 23rd Sunday of the Year - Community in Mission
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus defines four demands of discipleship. Let’s look at them one by one. I. The CONTEXT of discipleship – The text says that large crowds were following Jesus and so He turned to address them. Just about any time you find mention of a big crowd in the Bible, fasten your...
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