The Prodigal Human Race and Mercy
4th Sunday of Lent 2016 “But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.” Luke 15:32 This concluding line from the...
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5th Sunday of Lent 2016 Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new! Isaiah 43:19 These prophetic words of Isaiah are a most fitting and...
View ArticleHe is Our Lord and Savior – This Holy Week and Always
Palm Sunday Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave … he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. … so at the name of Jesus every knee should...
View ArticleChrist’s Passion glorifies the Father and thus Redeems us
Good Friday 2016 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,” Jn 17:1 These words of Jesus come...
View ArticleHe is risen – We are Reborn
Easter 2016 Today Jesus Christ is glorified by His Church as we proclaim our faith that He is truly risen from the grave, the conqueror of death, and the source of an unending life to all who believe...
View ArticleDivine Mercy – We All Can Be Involved
2nd Sunday of Easter Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. In the Gospel of St. John, chapter 14, after speaking about the wonders He has performed, which...
View ArticleRisen Men not Zombies
3rd Sunday of Easter 2016 And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they realized it was the Lord. The third encounter of the Apostles with the risen Lord once again reveals...
View ArticleThe Good Sheperd Always Speaks Truth
4th Sunday of Easter: The Good Shepherd When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and with violent abuse contradicted what Paul said. Both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and...
View ArticleYes, God Really Makes Us Sons in the Son
6th Sunday of Easter Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him [John 14:23 How can anyone ever come to enjoy the...
View ArticleHe Ascended, Body and Soul into the Triune God
Ascension 2016 – complete text When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. Acts 1:9 When you hear these words from Acts about the bodily...
View ArticleWihout Me You can Do Nothing
Pentecost 2016 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. … For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body (I Cor. 12: 7, 13) From beginning to end, the work...
View ArticleBecoming a Full Human Person
Trinity Sunday Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. [1 John 4:8] Among all the questions that man asks in this world, none is more important than the question of God – does God...
View ArticleO Silence My Soul and Adore
Corpus Christi Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and...
View ArticleBad Conscience – True Repentance
11th Sunday In the Book of Acts, King David receives a supreme tribute directly from God “who testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart…’” What could be more...
View ArticleTheology of the Cross
12th Sunday Ordinary Time “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his...
View ArticleThe Abundant Riches of Holy Mother Church
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. Isaiah 66:12 The history of the Church is a history of...
View ArticleBut who is my neighbor?
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time “But who is my neighbor?” asks the lawyer in today’s Gospel. In other words, “Who is the neighbor I must love next to God?”? It’s a very honest question that needs to be...
View Article“Mary has chosen the better portion.”
16th Sunday of the Year “Mary has chosen the better portion.” There are times in the Gospels, at least for some of us, when our immediate reaction to an event or a parable is quite the opposite of what...
View ArticlePursuing True Riches
18th Sunday of Ordinary Time ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for...
View ArticleBanish All Fear
19th Sunday of Ordinary Time Do not live in fear little flock – it has pleased the Father to give you the Kingdom. In the third chapter of St. John’s Gospel, The evangelist tells us that Jesus never...
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