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Easter Wednesday
Today’s readings “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” Today’s scriptures continue to speak to us of the joy of the Resurrection. The disciples once again have experiences of the Risen Lord. Today’s experience is one that is really a foreshadowing…
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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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Holy Saturday: Blessing of Easter Foods
Holy Saturday is a rough day for us Catholics, I think. We started last Sunday with a triumphant procession with palms, only to end with the death of Jesus in the Passion. On Thursday, we gathered for the joyful celebration of the institution of the Eucharist – an incredible gift from our God – and…
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Holy Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Today’s readings “We should glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he is our salvation, our life and our resurrection; through him we are saved and made free.” That is the proper entrance antiphon, also known as the introit, for this Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It is taken from Paul’s…
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Wednesday of Holy Week
Today’s readings “The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him…” The gospels tell us in many places that Jesus willingly laid down his life. This was the mission the Father gave him, and this was the mission he had taken up on this earth. In these final days of Holy Week,…
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Lent Penance Service
Today’s Gospel: John 3:14-21 The only thing God wants to do is to forgive sinners. Period. That’s what our Gospel reading tells us very plainly today: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God…
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Tuesday of Holy Week
Today’s readings Today’s Gospel reading contains four of the most chilling words in all of holy Scripture: “And it was night.” Those narrative words come just after Judas takes the morsel and leaves the gathering. But the Beloved Disciple didn’t include those words to tell us the time of day. In John’s Gospel, there is…
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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
Today’s readings Today, and throughout this Holy Week, we have in our Liturgy a stark reminder that the hope that we have in the Resurrection was purchased at a great price. Our world today would prefer to ignore the cross. And with good reason. Because the cross is embarrassing. Until Christianity, no religion worth its…
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Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Today’s readings Caiaphas had no idea how prophetic his words were. Actually, as far as the intent of his words went, they were nothing but selfish. The Jews didn’t want to lose their standing with the Romans. As it was, they had an uneasy peace. The Romans pretty much let them practice their religion as…
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