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 […]
April 29, 2025
Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin & Doctor of the Church We focus on one of the great lay doctors of the church who had a Dominican charism that called her to preach and write for the betterment of the Body of Christ. Today’s first reading, used for our own holy founder’s solemnity Mass […]
April 28, 2025
In 1 Corinthians, Saint Paul writes, “If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” To reinforce the reality of Jesus’ resurrection, the Church long ago declared that Easter is not just one day. Liturgically, every day of the week from Easter Sunday through the octave day, the Second Sunday […]
April 27, 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday Pope Francis gave us the image of a field hospital to describe the Church. On this Divine Mercy Sunday, the image speaks of our mission to bring mercy to the wounded by our forgiveness and healing. Jesus shows us Divine Mercy in the Upper Room as he […]
April 26, 2025
For several years recently, the buzzword has been “grateful.” There are all sorts of radio programs on gratefulness, thankfulness, and blessings. Talk show hosts tell us to journal three things every day that we are grateful for. You can even buy several varieties of journals with the grateful theme. We are almost one whole week […]
April 25, 2025
Discipleship today presents various challenges. I am reminded of Pope Francis’s call to “go into the deep,” and our small community has strived to heed this call. There are many forms of “nets” that can guide us on different paths, and I hope that this endeavor will lead to a bountiful harvest of believers. Soon, […]
April 25, 2025
It was a dark time for the disciples immediately after Jesus’s death on the cross. Many of his disciples left him wondering what their new life would be when they thought they had lost hope with the death of their teacher, Jesus. Even after Jesus’s resurrection, which brought their hopes up high, in today’s gospel […]
April 24, 2025
Why are you surprised? This question is asked in both readings today. During this Easter octave, the gospel presents us with scene after scene where all were surprised: disciples, Roman officials, Jewish leaders, and visitors in Jerusalem. In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we hear Peter proclaim the power of Jesus’ […]
April 23, 2025
Peter and John walk up to the Temple in Jerusalem for the hour of prayer (Acts 3:1-10). As they come to the “Beautiful Gate,” a voice calls out to them, begging for alms: it is a crippled man carried to this prime spot every day. The apostles know him; still, he gets no gold or […]
April 22, 2025
Easter Tuesday Jesus is both Lord and Christ! (Acts 2:36) It is beautiful to read the texts of the resurrection alongside these beautiful texts of Pentecost. It is also fascinating to see that the gospel of John joins the events of the resurrection with the descent of the Holy Spirit. This explains the resurrection as […]
