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Wednesday of Holy Week
Today's readings [display_podcast] "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…
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Tuesday of Holy Week
Today's readings [display_podcast] "And it was night." These are the three most chilling words in the Gospel of John. John's Gospel is all about the light. In the first verses of the first chapter of the Gospel, John speaks of the light that is Christ, "through him was life, and this life was the light…
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Monday of Holy Week
Today's readings [display_podcast] The cost of Jesus' obedience to the Father is quickly becoming known at this point. In his life, he lived as the Suffering Servant of whom Isaiah speaks in today's first reading. He has been a covenant to all of us, has cured the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, and…
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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
Today's readings [display_podcast] 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. Life in our world today would prefer to ignore the Cross. And with good reason. Because the Cross is embarrassing. Until Christianity, no…
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Solemnity of St. Joseph
Today’s readings [display_podcast] It doesn’t take too much of a stretch of the imagination to know that St. Joseph was a very special man. He was, of course, of the line of David, but he is the specific person in that line that God chose to be the foster father of his only Son. In…
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Forty Hours Devotion: Closing Mass of Thanksgiving
Readings: Sirach 50:22-24; Mark 5:18-20 [display_podcast] Have you ever had an experience that was so wonderful you just never wanted it to end? Maybe you were on a vacation and the place where you spent your time was really beautiful, and you had all kinds of fun, you got to swim and do all sorts…
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Forty Hours Devotion: Solemn Vespers
Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 [display_podcast] What is so wonderful, I think, about these Forty Hours is that we truly do have the wonderful ability to approach our God who is enthroned on Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering. That wonderful worship scene of which…
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Today’s readings [display_podcast] The covenant faithfulness of the Lord is a wonderful topic for Mass during our Forty Hours Devotion. One of the fruits of Eucharistic Adoration is that we can come before our Lord, with all of our problems or doubts or concerns, and know that in the Eucharist, God is always present to…
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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Today's readings [display_podcast] Sometimes, what looks like freedom, is in fact the most hideous form of bondage and servitude. For Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, freedom seemed like it would only happen if they bowed down and worshipped the false idol-god of King Nebuchadnezzar. But they knew that was not the case; if they gave into…
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Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Today’s readings So often we don’t recognize the salvation that God brings us – the salvation that is right there in front of our faces. This goes all the way back to the ancient Israelites, wandering in the desert, frightened to death that God would not feed them. When they began dying from the fruits…
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