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The Solemnity of Pentecost
Today's readings [display_podcast] In a few moments we will stand together and pray these beautiful words: We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. And we…
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Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] There are two kinds of communication that are spoken of in today’s Gospel. The first is rumor, and the second is truth. The rumor in the Gospel came about as a result of a misinterpretation of the private conversation that Jesus and John were having. Jesus tells Peter basically that it’s…
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May Crowning
Today's Readings: Acts 1:12-14, John 19:25-27[Mass for the school children.] There is a prayer, the “Hail Mary” that we say all the time. How many of you know it, boys and girls? Since we are crowning Mary today, I thought it might be a good thing to talk about that wonderful prayer and what it…
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Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] Sometimes we get an idea and it seems well, a little uncomfortable. We may well have had a call or even a gentle moving from the Lord, and are afraid to act on it. Today’s Scriptures speak to those of us who are sometimes hesitant to do what the Lord is…
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Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] The two readings we have in today’s Liturgy of the Word are a bit of a coincidence. We have been reading, these Easter days, sequentially from the Acts of the Apostles in the first reading, and for the Gospel from John. Today we see both central characters wrapping up their life’s…
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Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord
Today's readings [display_podcast] Can you imagine what was going through the disicples’ minds as they stood there watching the Ascension of the Lord? Think about all that they’ve been through. Three years following this Jesus whose words were compelling and whose miracles were amazing and whose way of life was uplifting. But still, there…
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Feast of Ss. Philip and James, Apostles
Today's readings | Today's saints [display_podcast] Today is the feast of St. Philip and the man we call “St. James the Lesser” because he is not the St. James that we know as a relative of Jesus and the traditional author of the book of James. Unfortunately, all that we know about this St. James…
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St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church
Today's readings | Today's saint [display_podcast] Persecution was something very common in the early Church. We see the beginnings of the persecution of St. Paul in our first reading. Some Jews were starting to make trouble for Paul because he was challenging their way of worship and their way of life. Living the Gospel is…
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Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] As we have gathered these last several weeks to continue our celebration of Easter, maybe you noticed that we have always had a reading from the Acts of the Apostles as our first reading. In these readings, we have been hearing about an almost idyllic community, a community that has shared its…
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