November 2023

Watch for Him: Scott Hahn on the 1st Sunday of Advent The new Church year begins with a plea for God’s visitation. “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,” the prophet Isaiah cries in today’s First Reading. In today’s Psalm, too, we hear the anguished voice of…

When the End Comes: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Solemnity of Christ the King The Church year ends today with a vision of the end of time. The scene in the Gospel is stark and resounds with Old Testament echoes. The Son of Man is enthroned over all nations and…

Settling Accounts: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 33rd Sunday The day of the Lord is coming, Paul warns in today’s Epistle. What matters isn’t the time or the season but what the Lord finds us doing with the new life, the graces He has given to us. This is at…

Members of the Wedding: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 32nd Sunday According to marriage customs of Jesus’ day, a bride was first “betrothed” to her husband but continued for a time to live with her family. Then, at the appointed hour some months later, the groom would come to claim…

Calling the Fathers: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 31st Sunday Though they were Moses’ successors, the Pharisees and scribes exalted themselves, making their mastery of the law a badge of social privilege. Worse, they had lorded the law over the people (see Matthew 20:25). Like the priests Malachi condemns in…