Lessons from Loyola Hall

This week’s readings remind us that we need to be like the Coast Guard and always be ready. There’s ‘being ready’ as in seeing every present event as corresponding to something in Daniel or Mark’s Gospel or Revelation, and then there’s ‘being ready’ as in knowing that at any moment we might be called home.

"If you want to be a good bricklayer, then you need to pay attention to how a good bricklayer lays bricks." In this week's Lessons from Loyola Hall, Healey '77 explains a reading assignment his seniors are tasked with this month and the meaning behind it.

The poor widow in the reading this weekend, offers, her two coins, and Jesus says she “put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.” Because she gave from her own need, not surplus, she gave out of love. That's what Jesus really calls us to do.

From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them so that, thus purified, they may attain the beatific vision of God. We can hope these people are "in a better place," yet our prayers can help them achieve this salvation.