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The Ascension of the Lord
Today’s readings For the early Apostles and disciples, today’s feast had to be a kind of “now what?” experience for them. Think about what they’ve been through. Their Lord had been betrayed by one of their friends, he had been through a farce of a trial and put to death in a horrible, ignoble way,…
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The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin shows us the great love, joy, and faith of our Blessed Mother. Having given her fiat – her “yes” – to God, she now shows concern for her elder relative who is also with child. She goes to visit her in a great act of hospitality,…
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Friday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Petty jealousy is a pernicious thing. Paul experienced it, directed against him by those Jews who were jealous of Paul’s effective preaching and suspicious of the Christian Way. In their fear and jealousy, they appeal to Gallio, a Roman official, complaining that Paul stirred up the people to worship God contrary to the…
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School Graduation: Go!
Sometimes when we come to major moments in our lives, there is this crazy thought that comes to us – what do I do now? It’s kind of like, I’ve looked forward to this moment for so long, even though I know the next step, I don’t know how to be me in that next…
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The Sixth Sunday in Easter
Today’s readings Our readings today revolve around the theological virtue of hope. Hope is the virtue that recognizes our desire for happiness in this life and the next, which is an aspiration placed in our hearts by God himself (CCC 1818). According to the Catechism, the virtue of hope causes us to “desire the kingdom…
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Friday of the Fifth Week in Easter
Today’s readings Perhaps the essence of living a Christian life is one that Jesus presents in today’s Gospel reading, and that of course is to love. But Jesus isn’t asking for just any kind of love: nothing superficial, not mere infatuation, and certainly not lust. Jesus insists that his disciples love one another in the…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week in Easter
Today’s readings In our first reading this morning, Saint Luke, the author of the Acts of the Apostles, tells us about a very important, defining moment for the early Church. In these days, the Apostles were really trying to figure out how the Church was supposed to work, because there wasn’t a rule book or…
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The Fourth Sunday in Easter
Today’s readings Today’s brief Gospel reading begins with the wonderful line, “My sheep hear my voice.” Reflecting on that line caused me to wonder: how are the sheep to hear the shepherd in this day and age? There are so many things that vie for our attention, so many circumstances that distract us from everything…
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Friday of the Third Week in Easter
Today’s readings Saul and Ananias are proof that God has an interesting sense of humor. I think we saw a little bit of that out of Rome yesterday as well. How many of us grew up hearing “there will never be an American pope?” And God said, “Oh yeah? Hold my miter!” This is proof…
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Thursday of the Third Week in Easter
Today’s readings In the spiritual realm, there aren’t coincidences. God puts us where we need to be, when we need to be there. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit. We see that played out in today’s first reading. Here, an angel directs the Apostle Saint Philip to be on a road at the very…
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