Homily and Personal Reflection Aids for the Sundays of February

During the current liturgical year, which began with the First Sunday of Advent, Bondings 2.0 began to make available to our readers all a montly archive of all of our Sunday scriptural and personal reflections since the blog’s origin in 2011.

We are doing so because every year we receive requests from pastoral ministers, homilists, spiritual directors, and others for a “sneak peek” at these reflections to help them include an LGBTQ+ dimension to homilies, talks, prayers, and discussions for each Sunday.

At the end of each month, we will post a catalog of past reflections from our archives for the coming month’s Sunday readings. As we make these posts available on the blog, we will also be archiving them on our website, so that eventually reflections for the Sunday readings of all three liturgical cycles–A, B, C– will be permanently available to pastoral ministers and individual Catholics.

Below are the reflections for the Fourth through Seventh Sundays in Ordinary Time. In February 2025, the Fourth Sunday in Advent is replaced by the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus, which has not been marked on a Sunday for some years now, so we have no reflections for that feast’s readings. Because Lent begins on different dates each year, usually in February, not all February Sundays always occur in Ordinary Time, which accounts for some of the absences. Also, because Bondings 2.0 only began posting Sunday reflections as a regular weekly feature in 2020, not all years are represented.

When Advent began on December 1, 2024, the church started to hear readings from the Year C cycle, so these readings are listed first, followed by Year A (which will begin on the First Sunday of Advent 2025) and Year B (beginning on the First Sunday of Advent 2026).

We hope this resource is helpful for pastoral ministers and others who want to understand develop the spiritualities of LGBTQ+ people in their communities. The reflections can also serve for individual prayer, reflection, and journaling for anyone. We welcome your feedback.