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Confirmation Closing Mass: Saint Catherine of Siena
On this last day of Confirmation classes, we celebrate the feast of Saint Catherine of Siena, a religious, a mystic, and a Doctor of the Church. I think she’s an excellent saint to reflect on today, because she teaches us how one person can change the world for the better. Saint Catherine was born at…
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings I’m sure we have all had the experience of pruning a shrub or a tree. When you’re a homeowner, there’s always landscaping to be done. Pruning keeps the shrub or tree from growing out of control and becoming unsightly, but it also keeps the plant healthy. To keep a plant healthy, very often…
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Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings There’s a funny picture I have seen go around on social media fairly often. It’s a picture of a student’s math test, and the student was clearly stumped. So he or she wrote in, “Jesus is the answer.” But the teacher corrected it in red, and wrote, “Not to this question it isn’t!”…
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Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings I don’t believe in coincidences, spiritually speaking. Being in the right place at the right time isn’t usually a coincidence. Far more often than we realize, it’s the work of the Holy Spirit. That is certainly the case in today’s first reading. How else would we explain an angel directing Philip to be…
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The Third Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings Two weeks ago today, we celebrated Easter, the great feast of our salvation, when Christ rose victorious over sin and death. Today, two weeks later, the question is, “So now what?” In today’s Liturgy of the Word, three different audiences hear the same message. In the first reading, Peter is speaking to a Jewish…
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The Solemnity of the Annunciation
Today’s readings “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.May it be done to me according to your word.” Today, we celebrate one of the most important feasts on the Church calendar. Without the Annunciation, there could never have been a Christmas. Without the Annunciation, there never could have been a Good Friday or an…
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The Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy)
Today’s readings I always like to say that today, this octave day of Easter Sunday, this Sunday of Divine Mercy, is the feast day for those of us who sometimes question things, and the apostle, Saint Thomas, is would then be our patron saint. Sometimes we give poor Saint Thomas a hard time for his…
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Saturday in the Octave of Easter
Today’s readings We are confronted in today’s Gospel with a reluctance to believe. In the disciples’ case, it was a slowness to believe based on the fact that they didn’t really have the resources that we do – like the Gospels and two millennia of Church teaching. They did, of course, have what the Lord…
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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Today’s readings I’ve heard many teachers say that the joy of teaching often comes when they see a student, who has struggled with an idea or concept for a long time, finally come to understand the idea in such a way that they can apply it in new situations. I thought about that with relation…
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The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
We should glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection,through whom we are saved and delivered. That was the entrance antiphon for this great Triduum of God’s mercy which began on Thursday night, as we gathered for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It rightly focused…
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