During the current liturgical year, which began with the First Sunday of Advent in 2024, 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.

Each month, we post a catalog of past reflections from our archives for the coming month’s Sunday readings.

Below are the reflections for October: the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth Sundays in Ordinary Time.  If there is no previous reflection for a particular year, you will see the word “None.” At the end of the post, you will find a reflection for the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, which occurs on October 4th.

When the current liturgical year began, the church started to hear readings  from the Year C Cycle, so these readings are listed first, followed by Year A Cycle (which will begin on the First Sunday of Advent 2025) and Year B Cycle (beginning on the First Sunday of Advent 2026). Because Bondings 2.0 only began posting Sunday reflections as a regular weekly feature in 2020, there is only one reflection earlier than that year (see 2016 under Cycle C.

We will eventually be archiving all of the reflections 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.

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 October Sundays 2025

CYCLE C

2022

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: From Darning Socks on Up, Ordinary Acts Help Build the Reign of God

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Only the Foreigner Returned: LGBTQ+ Catholics on the Synodal Path

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Persisting Like the Widow: A Transgender Catholic’s Journey to Prayer

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: LGBTQ+ Vulnerability as a Pathway to Genuine Prayer

2016

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: What If God Is Not Answering Our Prayers?

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

CYCLE B

2024

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Is It Best for the Synod to Say Nothing At All?

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s Blessings Fall Into Open Hands

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Path to Glory Looks Like Synodality

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

2021

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: All Our Relations Are Sacred

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: On Clinging to Anti-Queer Riches and the Reign of God

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time:  Staying Power

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The God Who Named You ‘Mother’

CYCLE A

2023

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Be Cautious in Trusting Secular ‘Kings’

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

2020

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: None

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: My Gay, Catholic Wedding (And Other Times I Recognize Myself in the Bible)

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Religious Liberty Comes From God, Not the Government

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Remedy for High Anxiety:  A Vaccine of Hope

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi: 

October 4: On Feast of St. Francis:  Witnessing Poverty, Patience, and Faith in LGBTQ Community

—Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry, September 24, 2025