The readings this Sunday are about the generosity of God. In his account of the feeding of the crowd, Matthew links the old and the new. Just as the People of Israel were fed in the wilderness, Jesus feeds the crowd and continues to feed us.

The Gospel this Sunday concludes the Parables of the Kingdom. The parable of the dragnet again reminds us that God is patient. There will be a harvest in the future but what about now? This Sunday we explore that tension: the now and the future.

In another parable, the parable of the wheat and the weeds, we hear Jesus reflecting on what it means to follow him. In Matthew's Gospel that is the call to be one with him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

This Sunday, as we begin to listen to the Parables of the Kingdom, we hear Jesus describing how a farmer sowed seeds in a field. We will also hear that the essential message of the parable is that there is always a harvest.

In Matthew's Gospel, we hear that Jesus is the one who comes to lift the burden and calls us to trust in the mercy and compassion of God.

This Sunday the Gospel reading concludes the second discourse of Jesus. It is about the Mission Jesus entrusted to his disciples. It is also about giving priority to the Mission.

On this Twelfth Sunday we continue to read from the discourse in Matthew's Gospel where Jesus is instructing his disciples about their Mission. We too are called to share in that Mission.

As we return to the Ordinary Sundays of the Year, we are also returning to our reading of Matthew’s Gospel. On this Sunday, we begin to read the second of the five discourses that we find in Matthew’s Gospel. in the second discourse, the focus is on the Mission of the disciples and it is also about our Mission.

The feast of the Body and Blood of Christ is transferred to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday. It is still sometimes known by its previous Latin title of Corpus Christi. It celebrates the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

On the Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the feast of the Trinity. When we call God Father, Son and Spirit, we are attempting to put into human words our experience of God's revelation.