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Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today’s readings The stewardship of the truth has always been the special care of the Church. Error and lies can destroy us, and so we must constantly be vigilant that we are protecting the truth as Jesus gave it to us, as it has been revealed by God through Scripture and Tradition. In our first…
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Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today’s readings In these days after the Ascension, the Liturgy calls us to turn and find our hope in God. Even though he is unseen, he is still very much with us. He may be in the heaven of our hopes, but he also walks among us. We are sustained by the hope that we…
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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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Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today we’re gathered on what is, for us, the eve of the Ascension. While the reading that we have in today’s Gospel is from John’s account of the eve of the Passion, the words could well have been spoken to the Apostles on the eve of the Ascension too. Jesus speaks of leaving…
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Saint Matthias, Apostle
Today’s readings We don’t really know much about St. Matthias. We have no idea what kind of holiness of life he led that led to his being nominated as one of two possibilities to take Judas’s position among the Twelve Apostles. What is striking about the selection of St. Matthias though is that this is…
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Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s first reading finds Saint Paul proclaiming Christ to the Greeks at the Areopagus. These people were Gentiles, of course, even pagans. But, as Paul noted, they had an altar to “an unknown God,” and so he finds them very religious. And so he connects Christ to that unknown God, making him known…
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Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today, Jesus has for us good news and bad news. The good news is that he is eventually going to send the Holy Spirit upon the world. The Holy Spirit will be a new Advocate for us, and will testify to everything that Jesus said and did. The Spirit’s testimony will be further…
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Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s scriptures speak to us about the essence of what it means to live a Christian life. First, as we can see in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, it means making a clean break with the ways that we have been tethered to the world. For the newest members of…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings This week we have been hearing in our first readings from the Acts of the Apostles, about the controversy concerning the Gentiles. As the Church grew and grew, many people from all walks of life began to turn to the Lord. That’s the kind of thing we want to have happen. But as…
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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings So the goal is for each of us disciples to bear much fruit. That’s how the kingdom of God is built here in our time and place. Jesus says that the way we get there is by remaining part of the vine, which is Jesus himself, and by being pruned. Now I’ve seen…
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