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The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings A topic in the spiritual life that I think we don’t understand the way we should, and which doesn’t get a lot of discussion, is hope. Saint Peter in today’s second reading urges us to “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope…” …
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings In our first reading today, we have from the Acts of the Apostles a rather defining moment for the early Church. Jesus hadn’t given them a precise rule book of how to make the Church develop: he simply sent them out to baptize. But he also told them to make disciples of all…
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Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Saint Paul was obviously a pretty tough guy. I don’t know about you, but if I barely weathered the storm of people throwing rocks at me and leaving me for dead, I might think twice about how I handled my ministry. That’s nothing to be proud of, but I think that’s part of…
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Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s readings are a reminder that we disciples have to be discerning. It is important for us to discern what the truth is so that we can be led to the one who is Truth itself. The Gentiles, who worshiped idols, didn’t have the context of monotheism – that there is one God…
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings Catholics by nature are not supposed to be stagnant people. Being Catholic means being on the move. Many of the ancient churches were built in a shape that evoked a ship, which hearkened back to Noah’s ark, which was a foreshadowing of the Church. Just as that ark was the means of salvation…
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Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Imagine that you are Paul or Barnabas or one of the other apostles. Think about all the things they went through in that first reading. Paul hasn’t even been a Christian for very long, and already he is being hounded and persecuted. Maybe that makes sense because some people probably viewed his conversion…
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Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Probably the most urgent task of our lives is to find our way. Lots of people get hung up on that: often in happens in young adulthood, or perhaps even later. They lose their way and maybe they don’t even know where they are going. Thomas gives voice to that kind of thing…
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The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings Some days, I think there isn’t much I wouldn’t do for just five minutes of peace and quiet. If you’re a parent, maybe you’d amend that to longing for just five seconds of peace and quiet! We are all probably sadly familiar with the many loud distractions our world puts before us. And…
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Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings(School Mass) Sometimes, I think, we often wonder what God has in mind. Sometimes he picks us, or someone else, for something that just doesn’t seem like it would work. And then it works out amazingly! God sure knows us better than we know ourselves! Saul is proof that God’s ways are not our…
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Saint Mark, Evangelist
Today’s readings We aren’t completely sure who St. Mark was. He might have been the first bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Some scholars say he might have been the one described in chapter 14 of Mark’s Gospel, at the arrest of Jesus: “Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his…
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