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 the coming Sunday.

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

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).

The liturgical cycle for November 2025 is unusual because of the way the calendar falls. Two of this year’s Sundays mark special commemorations that do not usually fall on Sunday: All Souls (November 2) and the Dedication of the Church of St. John Lateran (November 9). As a result, there is only one reflection for All Souls (Cycle C, 2022) and none for the Lateran feast. So, this year, the only Ordinary Time Sundays which occur in November are the Thirty-Third Sunday and Christ the King Sunday (otherwise known as the Thirty-Fourth Sunday), which ends the Cycle C readings for this liturgical year.

Nevertheless, we have also included reflections for the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Sundays which usually fall in November.

To complicate matters, November 2025 has FIVE Sundays, instead of the more usual four. Also, the last Sunday, November 30th, begins the new liturgical year with the First Sunday of Advent for Year A. Reflections for this Sunday are included in the Year A section below with the other November reeadings.

If there is no previous reflection for a particular Sunday in a particular year, you will see the word “None.”

At the end of the post, you will find three reflections for All Saints Day (November 1). Additionally, there are three reflections appropriate for Thanksgiving Day, which, while not a liturgical feast, is a holiday usually celebrated with Mass in the United States.

You will also find links to “Journeys” installments for All Saints, All Souls, and Christ the King. “Journeys” is New Ways Ministry’s scripture reflection guides for LGBTQ+ people and allies.

Today’s post is the final one for this year since the liturgical cycle ends in November. In a few weeks, we will be launching the archive on our website for all of our reflections for easy reference in the future. We will announce this launch here on Bondings 2.0.

We hope this resource has been 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.