During the current liturgical year, which began with the First Sunday of Advent, Bondings 2.0 began to make available to our readers a monthly 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.  Because the church is in Cycle C this year, we begin the list with those reflections, followed by Cycles A and B. 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 June: the Ascension/Seventh Sunday of Easter, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi.

Because June is also Pride month, and that is sometimes a  homily topic, we have marked four reflections which contain Pride themes. See the parenthetical marker after the reflection title.

Because Bondings 2.0 only began posting Sunday reflections as a regular weekly feature in 2020, not all years are represented.  Because the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul rarely falls on a Sunday, we have no reflections for this occasion.

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 and/or develop the spiritualities of LGBTQ+ people in their communities.

We welcome your feedback.

Reflections for June Sundays 2025

CYCLE C

2022

Seventh Sunday of Easter: Come and Drink the Water of Life

Ascension: None

Pentecost: What About the Brownies?

Trinity Sunday: What Does the Trinity Have to Do With Pride? (Pride theme)

Corpus Christi Sunday: How Can I Stay? Finding Manna in the Desert of Exclusion

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

2019  

Seventh Sunday of Easter: None

Ascension: None

Pentecost: The Animated, Extravagant and Flamboyant Spirit of God (Pride theme).  This item is not an essay, but an installment from New Ways Ministry’s resouce  “Journeys:Scripture Reflection Series for LGBTQ People and Allies.”

Trinity Sunday: None

Corpus Christi Sunday: None

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

CYCLE A

2023

Seventh Sunday of Easter: None

Ascension: What’s So Queer About the Ascension?

Pentecost: Speaking in Tongues and Throwing Bricks, the Holy Spirit Is Alive at Pentecost—and at Pride (Pride theme)

Trinity Sunday: When Our Plans for Christian Living Meet Life’s Messy Reality

Corpus Christi Sunday: We Are Jesus’ Hands, Feet, and Beating Heart for LGBTQ+ Inclusion

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

2020

Seventh Sunday of Easter: Whither Our Easter Joy?

Ascension: None

Pentecost: Bishop:  Pentecost Reminds the Church That All Are Welcome

Trinity Sunday: Queer, Catholic, and White: My Own Trinitarian Identity

Corpus Christi Sunday: Harriet Tubman, Pride, and Black Lives Matter:  How Far We’ve Come, How Far We Have to Go (Pride theme)

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

CYCLE B

2024

Seventh Sunday of Easter: None

Ascension: To Know the Hope that Belongs to God’s Call

Pentecost: Reconciling Radically Inclusive Friendship in the Upper Room

Trinity Sunday: Should Not a Triune God Use “They/Them” Pronouns?

Corpus Christi Sunday: With Fearless Love, We Are the Body of Christ: A Gay Priest Reflects

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

2021  

Seventh Sunday of Easter: None

Ascension: Jesus to LGBTQ Catholics: “Go And Preach the Gospel”

Pentecost: On Pentecost, Welcoming Diversity with Wonderment and Joy

Trinity Sunday: The Mystery of the Holy Trinity Explained. . . NOT!

Corpus Christi Sunday: The Bodies of Christ (Not a Typo)

Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul: None

–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry, May 23,2025