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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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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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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? In fact, Stephen is in good company. He is brought to the same place where his Lord Jesus, and later Peter and the apostles, have gone before him. And just like all…
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The Third Sunday of Easter [A]
Today’s readings It is always interesting to me, in this story of the appearance of Jesus on the road to Emmaus, how the one thing that got through to them was the breaking of the bread. He spent a long time walking with them, interpreting the Scriptures and recollecting all the things that had happened…
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Monday of the Second Week of Easter
Today’s readings One of the great things about being Catholic, I think, is the celebration of Easter. We do it up right, and keep doing it for fifty days! In fact, just yesterday we completed our celebration of Easter Day, which lasts for eight full days. It certainly makes sense to us that the joy…
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The Second Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings I really feel like we are inappropriately harsh on poor Saint Thomas. Sure, he had the benefit of seeing and knowing Jesus during his life, but still, neither he nor any of the other disciples had a guidebook of what was to happen after Jesus’ death, so how can we blame him for…
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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: Mass During the Day
Today’s readings Can you remember a time when you had a breakthrough moment, a kind of “aha!” experience? Maybe it was getting the answer to a math problem, or mastering the technique of a pitch in baseball, or coming up with just the right combination of ingredients cooking a sauce, or getting a particularly delicate…
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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord: The Easter Vigil
Tonight’s readings We English-speakers have just one word for time, but other languages have more; those languages recognize the different kinds of time. Most notably for us because it is reflected in the New Testament, the Greek language has two kinds of time: chronos and kairos. Chronos is the kind of time you can measure. …
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Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Today’s readings Isaiah’s lament catches us up in the emotion of Good Friday. The suffering servant’s appearance is so marred, stricken and infirm that we cannot bear to look at him. Because if we really looked hard enough, we know, in our heart of hearts, that the marring, the strickenness, the infirmity are all ours. …
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