The joy of conversion, Christian community, and the Catholic faith
2 Kings 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11, 15-18; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 I want to begin again by asking the Holy Spirit to increase our understanding. “Come, Holy Spirit come! And from your clear celestial home, shed a ray of Light Divine!” In this year of the B Cycle of Sunday readings we are looking at that...
Exodus 24:3-8; Ps 116:12-18; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Dear brothers and sisters, this Sunday’s solemn feast of Corpus Christi is another major tenant of our faith. Next to the understanding of three distinct persons in the one God, the Trinity we celebrated last Sunday, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for our...
Acts 2:1-11; Psalms 140:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1; Corinthians 12:3b-13; Pentecost Sequence; John 20:19-23 Catholics call this great feast the Birthday of our Church. Why? The early community was basically in hiding from Jewish and Roman authorities. At the Ascension Jesus told them to go back into the city to wait and pray for the...
Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98:1-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 Good mothers are such a blessing for their husbands and children. I pray for a great increase of God’s love into all mothers as they go about their daily tasks of caring for others. That is what divine and Christ’s love is. As we...
Have you ever been grateful for something negative that happened to you? Well, maybe not while it’s happening. A friend of mine is a classic doting grandmother. Nothing fills her with joy more than a visit from her baby grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away. She talks about nothing else before, during and after...
Isaiah 55:6-9; Ps 145:2-3 8-9, 17-18; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 2:1-16a What is God saying to us through that first reading from the prophet Isaiah? What is Jesus ultimately saying to us in his parable about the workers and his merciful just wages? It is very simple, as I see it. God is telling us...