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Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings When God made the human person, he put into him and her a hunger and a thirst that could only be filled up with God. God made us for himself, because he is Love itself and Love must always have an object of that love. As Saint Augustine said well, “You have made…
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Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings Do you believe in coincidences? I can’t say that I do, at least not in the spiritual sense. Sometimes, I think, being in the right place at the right time is divinely ordained. Far more often than we realize, I think it’s the work of the Holy Spirit. Certainly that has to be…
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Monday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings So they drag Saint Stephen before the Sanhedrin, and make all sorts of false claims against him. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? We heard a story just like this during Holy Week! In fact, Stephen is in good company. He is brought to the same place where his Lord Jesus, and later Peter and…
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Easter Thursday
Today’s readings To understand how significant the Resurrection event was, I think it’s helpful to try and put together a picture of how the disciples had to be feeling at this point. So prior to today’s Gospel selection, the women found the empty tomb, Peter has seen the Lord, and the two disciples had experienced…
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Easter Monday
Today’s readings Well, it wasn’t all that long ago that we saw the disciples scatter in fear, was it? Here they had seen their friend arrested, tortured, and killed, so one could not blame them for running scared. I’m sure I would have done no different if I had been them. But in today’s first…
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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Today’s readings “Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” That was the question the men in white garments asked the women in today’s Gospel reading. This is an important question for all of us people of faith on this Easter day. Because we often seek life among the dead. Jesus came to…
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The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
Tonight’s readings Dear Brothers and Sisters, how good it feels to say “Alleluia” tonight! Ever since we put the acclamation of our Resurrection joy away some forty days ago, we have been yearning for the opportunity to celebrate, once again, the fullness of our salvation. And this is the night! This is the night when…
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Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord
Today’s readings How quickly things have changed among Jesus’ followers. His disciples – even the chosen Twelve – have pretty much deserted him. They’ve either fled in fear, or else they have betrayed him, or denied that they knew him. But some women who were among his devoted followers have braved the implications for them…
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Monday of Holy Week
Today’s readings There are two things going on in today’s Scripture readings. First, we have the Jews, and now Judas among them, who are very jealous of Jesus and are seeking to arrest and kill him. And not just him, but anyone who encourages people to believe in him, like Lazarus in today’s Gospel. In…
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Today’s readings I’ve always felt that the celebration of Palm Sunday was a little strange. We start out on a seemingly triumphant note. Jesus enters Jerusalem, the city of the center of the Jewish religion, the city he has been journeying toward throughout the gospel narrative, and he enters it to the adulation of throngs. …
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