We begin this Second Week of Easter. Today is also DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY! Normally, we would pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet this afternoon, but because of Covid-19, please pray it on your own at home. The Easter Season, the 50 Day Period of Mystagogia, is meant for us to reflect more deeply on the Easter…
Today is the FEAST OF EASTER! This is the day that the Lord has made. It is a day of resurrection and newlife. But Easter is also a season of 50 Days, the Great Period of Mystagogia. That means we have 50 days to reflecton the impact of the resurrection in our lives, and how…
We begin a very different Holy Week today. There are no congregation and processions this week. It is still the most serious and solemnweek in the church year. Holy Week this year has taken on a different coloration because of the coronavirus pandemic. This week beginsas always on this day with the entry of Jesus into…
”THE HUMAN RACE MAY BE COMPAREDTO SPIKES OF WHEAT IN A FIELD, RISING, AS IT WERE, FROM THE EARTH, AWAITINGTHEIR FULL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND THEN IN TIME BEING CUT DOWN BY THEREAPER, WHICH IS DEATH.” (A LentSourcebook: The Forty Days, Book Two, p. 118). These are very different times. Noone could have foreseen what effect…
“A CHRISTIAN LENT CAN NEVER BE SAD. WITH THE FOURTH SUNDAY THE PENTUP SPIRITUAL JOY IN THE TRUE MEMBER OF CHRIST BURSTS FORTH IN ANTICIPATION OF THE EASTER JOY TO COME. ‘REJOICE, O, JERUSALEM, AND COME TOGETHER ALL YOU THAT LOVE HER’…” “A Lenten Sourcebook: The Forty Days, Book Two, p. 51 The coronavirus certainly has…
Water is a vital element in our existence. We need water to live. Yet, as important as water is for us, sometimes itis a destructive force in our world. Consider the many floods we have read and heard about recently, especiallywith climate change occurring in our world. It is important that we hydrate so that…
The coronavirus has dominated the news as well as people’s lives. It has affected activities around the world.Public events are cancelled, gatherings or large crowds are discouraged, airlines have cancelled flights to China andelsewhere, and Japan has closed schools for a month. Commerce between nations has been affected and peopleare cautious about how they move…
The desert is a vast, dry and arid place of mystery and encountering God. It is not a place one wants to be withoutfood or water. Yet, this is where the devil brought Jesus to tempt and challenge him. But, true to himself and hisFather, Jesus maintained his dignity and resisted the tempter’s invitations.And so,…
We begin the Holy Season of Lent on Ash Wednesday. This season is a time the church gives us to look atour relationships with God and each other and to see what we need to strip away to make them better. The asheswe wear on Wednesday are not a social statement but a reminder that…
We are moving closer to Lent, which occurs in 10 days. In the meantime, it is always good for us to consider whether we have taken seriously the message of the Gospels in their call for conversion. We sometimes forget that the Lord’s call to conversion is an ongoing experience, and not just during Lent,…