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 […]
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 […]