The Ascension of Our Lord
Today’s readings When I was on my pastoral internship in seminary, my supervisor and I talked about the fact that our Liturgy is very wordy. Think about it: all of the prayers and readings and songs – it’s a lot … Continued
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings I don’t know if you were counting or not, but between the second reading and the Gospel, the word “love” was used in one form or another eighteen times. So it’s pretty easy to see where the Church … Continued
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings Just in case we thought living the Christian life of discipleship was going to be a rosy celebration of joy every single day, our Lord gives us a dose of reality today. He points out that if we … Continued
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Today’s readings In our first reading this morning, 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 … Continued
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Today’s readings Have you ever pruned a shrub? I have. I’ve done it many times on the shrubs that were on my parents’ property. When I did it, I often thought about the fact that this process could not be … Continued
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Today’s readings “Don’t shoot the messenger!” That’s our colloquial way of saying that the words we speak to someone come from someone else; they are not our ideas. Most of us have probably said that to someone at some time … Continued
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time
I don’t have to tell you, I am sure, that life on earth can be pretty uncertain on a daily basis. Wars being fought all over the globe, terrorism and natural disasters, disrespect for human life, antagonism toward Christ-like values, … Continued
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Jesus uses a very familiar image today to illustrate the significance of following one’s vocation in life. He talks about a shepherd, which in an agrarian culture like his own, would have immediately made sense to his hearers. In a … Continued
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings Saul is proof that God’s ways are not our ways. How is it that God would pick for one of his chief Apostles a man who imprisoned and murdered the followers of the Christian Way? That had to … Continued
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s readings 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. Certainly that is the case in today’s first reading. How else would … Continued
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