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First Holy Communion
Children, I want you to remember one very important thing. If you remember this important fact, you will never be lost in your relationship with Jesus. That one thing is that God loves you very much. God made you because he loves you. Because he loves you, he had to make you, because he couldn’t…
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The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings When we pray the Creed, we always say that we believe in the Holy Spirit. When we prepare for Confirmation, we study the gifts of the Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit and we get ready to receive the Holy Spirit in a Sacramental way. But I often wonder if we are…
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Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Today’s readings You surely recognize these beautiful words: I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. These words emphasize…
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Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Saint Paul was obviously a pretty tough guy. I don’t know about you, but if I barely weathered the storm of people throwing rocks at me and leaving me for dead, I might think twice about how I handled my ministry. That’s nothing to be proud of, but I think that’s part of…
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Saint Catherine of Siena
Saint Catherine was born at Siena, in the region of Tuscany in Italy. When she was six years old Jesus appeared to Catherine and blessed her. As many parents do for their children, her mother and father wanted her to be happily married, preferably to a rich man. But Catherine didn’t want that, she wanted…
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings One of the most exciting lines in today’s Liturgy of the Word comes in the second reading: “The One who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’” The book of Revelation is all about the persecution of the early Christians, and it looks forward to the day when God…
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Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Now think about this just for a minute – pretend you are Paul or Barnabas or one of the other apostles. Think about all the things they went through in that first reading. Paul hasn’t even been a Christian for very long, and already he is being hounded and persecuted. Maybe that makes…
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Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Mass for the school children. One of the most important things we can ever learn is that God loves us very much. God created us because of love: if he didn’t love us, he never would have made us, because God never makes anything that he doesn’t love. God is love, and so…
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Saint Mark, Evangelist
Today’s readings We aren’t completely sure who St. Mark was. He might have been the first bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Some scholars say he might have been the one described in chapter 14 of Mark’s Gospel, at the arrest of Jesus: “Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his…
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings I think most of the time, we really need to be reassured that we are in the hands of God. Things here on earth can be pretty uncertain on a daily basis. The state of the economy, wars being fought all over the globe, terrorism and natural disasters, the disrespect for human life,…
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