May 25, 2023

A Man Speaks The man on the corner street shouts to us to repent. On a certain date, the world will end. Well, he is partially correct. Not everyone can hear him or want to listen to him. City traffic, crowded streets, and people talking on their phones drown out the shouting man on the […]

May 24, 2023

Our Risen Lord prays for all of his followers (and for us) and commends everyone to his Father. Jesus protected and guarded them and lost none except Judas, the betrayer. As the weekday readings for the Easter season from John’s Gospel continue, Jesus teaches us that we who have heard his word are neither made […]

May 23, 2023

Paul realized his mission and leadership when he was serving the churches around the basin of the Mediterranean. He knew he worked hard for Christ and that all his work was for Christ and God’s plan. His “farewell tour” and speeches remind us, too, of our role in keeping faithful to the authority of Christ […]

May 22, 2023

Optional Memorial of Saint Rita of Cascia The Gospel passage from John 16 proclaims, “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name he will give you. . . .[because] you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.” in the opening words of […]

May 21, 2023

7th Sunday of Easter [In the Archdioceses and Dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelphia, the Ascension of the Lord always falls on Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter and is a holy day of obligation, however in most Archdioceses and Dioceses, the Solemnity of the Ascension […]

May 20, 2023

“The more you know, the more you know, you don’t know.” (Aristotle) “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” (Einstein) “Hire a teenager today, while they still know everything.” (a bumper sticker I once saw) As a person in my fifties, I find myself at an interesting point. I […]

May 19, 2023

What does this mean that he is saying to us, “A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,” and “because I am going to the Father?” This is one of the puzzling statements that Jesus made that baffled the disciples until Jesus gave the […]

May 18, 2023

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord [In the Archdioceses and Dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelphia, the Ascension of the Lord always falls on Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter and is a holy day of obligation, however in most Archdioceses and Dioceses, the Solemnity […]

May 17, 2023

In today’s first reading, we see Paul walking around Athens and then addressing a gathered group stating that it was clear that they were a religious people with so many shrines to various gods around the city. He then told them of the one shrine dedicated to “the unknown god.” Paul then went on to […]

May 16, 2023

In today’s gospel, Jesus tells his disciples he is going to the Father. He had prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me.” But it was not his father’s will, and he accepted that “your will be done.” In the reading from Acts, Paul and Silas are […]