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St. John Baptist de la Salle
Today's readings | Today's saint[display_podcast] Our celebration today leads us to two great saints. The first is St. Stephen in today’s first reading. This is really the beginning of the end of his life. His courageous words and steadfast commitment to the truth are beginning to find disfavor among some trouble makers. The members of…
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Third Sunday of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] “They recounted … what had taken place on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.” 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…
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Friday of the Second Week of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] For any movement to succeed, it must take on a life beyond that of its present proponents. It has to have a past and a future that are directed by a momentum beyond their own devices. One might say, there must be a movement of the Holy Spirit in order for a…
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Thursday of the Second Week of Easter
Today's readings [display_podcast] In these Easter days, the Scriptures begin to speak to us about the gift of the Holy Spirit. This gift, is not rationed, as Jesus tells us in today’s Gospel reading. This gift is empowering and renewing and, according to the Psalmist, de-marginalizing. We all know the kind of men the Apostles…
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The Annunciation of the Lord
Today's readings [display_podcast] Fear keeps us from doing all sorts of things the Lord wants for us. If we would truly let go of our fear and cling to our God, just imagine what he could do in us and through us. Ahaz was King of Israel, a mighty commander, but yet was so afraid…
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Easter Friday
Today's readings [Mass for the school children.] [display_podcast] We Catholics have the incredible gift of being able to celebrate Easter for eight days – we call that the Octave of Easter – and so today I can still say to you, “Happy Easter!” We celebrate Easter for eight days because it’s that important to us.…
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Easter Tuesday
Today’s readings In these Easter days, we so much want to hold on to Jesus. We have journeyed through Lent with him, perhaps coming to terms with our failings or our brokenness, reaching toward growth in our spiritual life. And maybe we have been successful, and maybe not. Whatever our experience of Lent, we have…
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Easter Sunday
Today’s readings There’s certainly a flurry of activity in today’s readings, isn’t there? Especially in the Gospel, we see Mary Magdalene run from the empty tomb to get the Apostles. And then Peter and the “disciple whom Jesus loved” ran to the tomb. This flurry of activity centers around a crisis in their faith, a…
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The Easter Vigil
Today’s readings Next Sunday, I will have the wonderful privilege of baptizing my brand-new niece Katie. This past Thursday, I anointed a parishioner who is very close to death. On Monday, I will preside at the funeral of my mother’s aunt who was over 90 years old. This past year has been a roller coaster…
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Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Today’s readings Today is a hard day for us Christians because this is the day that highlights our weaknesses and underscores our brokenness. In today’s readings, we hear about the Suffering Servant, the one who was despised and rejected, who bore our infirmities, who went silently to his death. The writer of our second reading…
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