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Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Today’s readings It’s annoying when people call us on something and they’re right, isn’t it? But the Christian disciple knows that it is the job of our brothers and sisters to correct us when we stray, and the Christian disciple receives that correction as a grace. That’s clearly not how the hearers of the book…
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40 Hours: Thursday Evening Solemn Vespers
Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a So I’m now in my early forties and when I was growing up, like a lot of people my age, I think, Eucharistic adoration wasn’t something that I encountered. In those days shortly after the Second Vatican Council, a whole lot of the old got thrown out to make way for…
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Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Today’s readings Sometimes it’s hard for things to get through to us, isn’t it? One of my friends in seminary used to say that the Israelites had a pillar of cloud leading them by day, and a pillar of fire by night. So how come they couldn’t believe that God would take care of them?…
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Opening Mass for Forty Hours Devotion
Readings: Exodus 12:21-27 | 1 Peter 1:17-21 | Mark 14:12-16,22-26 Brothers and sisters in Christ, it is truly an awesome privilege to be here tonight as we begin this Forty Hours Devotion. We are a people blessed and graced by our God with nothing less than the very Real Presence of his Son, our Lord…
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Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Today’s readings Today’s readings remind us that our God is not forgetful. He is not one of the gods of false religion who supposedly made the world and set it in motion, then backed off and watched things unfold. No, our God is a God who created the heavens and the earth and everything that…
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Today’s reading The waters that flowed from the temple in the first reading are the same waters that were stirred up in the pool at Bethesda, and those are the same waters that if you’re real quiet, you can hear flowing behind us. The waters of baptism are those waters that freshen all of the…
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Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of Mary
Today’s readings Today I think we have to be impressed with the faithfulness of Joseph. When he became betrothed to Mary, he got more than he could ever have expected. It certainly would have been easy to divorce her quietly when the news of her pregnancy became known, and it certainly would have been difficult…
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Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare Sunday
Today I preached two homilies. One was for the regular Mass of the day, the Cycle C readings, including the Parable of the Prodigal Father. The other was for the Mass of the second scrutiny of the Elect, the Cycle A readings, including the cure of the man born blind. Cycle C Readings Whenever we…
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Saturday of the Third Week of Lent: St. Patrick
Today’s readings | Today’s saint Today’s readings are the ultimate words that remind us that it’s not about us. As Fr. Fragomeni pointed out this past Monday at our Lenten Mission, we have to give up the baggage of thinking we are so very important. Jesus makes it clear: “everyone who exalts himself will be…
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Friday of the Third Week of Lent
Today’s readings “You are not far from the Kingdom of God!” I had a teacher in seminary who used to say that to people whenever they had a really insightful comment or answer in class. And it is that insight that we are all being called to in today’s readings. In the reading from Hosea,…
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