Today’s readings Our readings today revolve around the theological virtue of hope. Hope is the virtue that recognizes our desire for happiness in this life and the next, which is an aspiration placed in our hearts by God himself (CCC 1818). According to the Catechism, the virtue of hope causes us to “desire the kingdom… Continue reading The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Category: Liturgy
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s scriptures speak to us about the essence of what it means to live a Christian life. First, as we can see in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, it means making a clean break with the ways that we have been tethered to the world. For the newest members of… Continue reading Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings I love this Gospel reading because of the way it talks about love. It would be easy enough to say that if we just love each other a little more, everything will be fine. And there is some truth to that. If we loved each other a bit more, things would certainly be… Continue reading Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings I’m always amazed by the fortitude of Saint Paul. He’s almost stoned to death and left, in fact, for dead, and he gets up and enters the city like nothing was wrong. I don’t know about you, but if I barely weathered the storm of people throwing rocks at me and leaving me… Continue reading Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings I love to tell the children in school or religious education that the most important thing they can ever know about God is also one of the first things they ever learned about God. And that is that God is love, and that God loves them very much. Indeed, if we always keep… Continue reading The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Today’s readings are full of messengers. In the first reading, Saint Paul is a messenger bringing news of the real meaning of the ancient Scriptures in light of the death and resurrection of Jesus. And he speaks of another messenger, John the Baptist, who paved the way for the coming of Jesus by… Continue reading Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings When people ask you where you are from, the way that you answer that question probably depends a lot on the context. For instance, if it was a stranger who asked you that question when you were on a vacation out of the country, you might answer, “I’m from the United States.” If… Continue reading Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readingsGood Shepherd Sunday / World Day of Prayer for Vocations Today’s brief Gospel reading begins with the wonderful line, “My sheep hear my voice.” Reflecting on that line caused me to wonder: how are the sheep to hear the shepherd in this day and age? There are so many things that vie for our… Continue reading The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings Sometimes we just don’t want to do things that someone else tells us we should do. Even if it’s God. In our first reading, Ananias didn’t want anything to do with Saul, and for good reason: Saul had a reputation for wanting to put an end to Christians and the Christian Way. Saul… Continue reading Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings I don’t believe in coincidences. 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 on a… Continue reading Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
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