May 9, 2025

Incomprehensible mystery! Christ handed his life over to death to become the sacred food of divine nourishment to conquer death with the bread of eternal life. Yes, people quarreled about this. It is outlandish. The gift Jesus gives is the divine life that comes from the Father. In obedience to the Father, Jesus is the […]

May 8, 2025

How often have we found ourselves in Philip’s shoes? Yes, Philip’s adventure is the same as ours. It takes time, yet the journey into Jesus’ arms increases our awareness of what we are doing, what He did: listening and being obedient to the Holy Spirit’s nudging. We have access to all the necessary tools. We […]

May 7, 2025

Jesus said to the crowds, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” Long before his passion and death, Jesus predicted that he would nourish us with his very self. To those who heard him, this seemed too much to take. The […]

May 6, 2025

We commemorate the martyrdom of Saint Stephen twice a year, on Tuesday of the third week of Easter and December 26. Each time of the year, the story calls us to remember a life offered to God in grace and the Holy Spirit. This holy deacon wished for his whole life and death to be […]

May 5, 2025

Today’s gospel reading marks the beginning of the Bread of Life Discourse. After the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, the crowd was so drawn to Jesus that they crossed the sea on the very next day in search of Him. They did this not because of the miracle of the multiplication of […]

May 4, 2025

3rd Sunday of Easter Today’s gospel contains one of my favorite sayings from Peter: “I’m going fishing”. To fully appreciate this statement, we must remember the emotional journey that Peter and the other disciples had barely started. They had begun an earlier journey with Jesus of Nazareth, thinking the long-awaited Jewish messiah had finally arrived. […]

May 3, 2025

Feast of Saints Philip and James, Apostles Amid the glorious celebration of Easter, we see red vestments on the altar once again. Celebrating the Feast of the Apostles Saints Philip and James, we remember Christ’s victory over death. In today’s Collect, we pray: O God, who gladden us each year with the feast day of […]

May 2, 2025

The Acts of the Apostles provides us today with a courageous witness of the apostles. Arrested by the Sanhedrin for preaching the message of Jesus, they are scourged and told to preach no more. But “they rejoiced to have the honor of suffering humiliation for the sake of the name.” They boldly went forward to […]

May 1, 2025

Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker There is a story of a party of sailors who were shipwrecked and drifting in the ocean in an open boat. They’d been drifting for days, had run out of fresh water, and were starting to suffer the agonies of thirst. Finally, another boat came within hailing distance. The […]

April 30, 2025

Giving Darkness Its Due Need some light? Led’s, incandescent. Florescent, soft, warm, spotlights red, blue, green, or purple lights and much more. Then there are the dim lights of hypocrisy, the bright lights of hatred, and the black lights of moral turpitude. It’s in us to want light, but we need darkness. Scriptural metaphors of […]