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Sunday May 14, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
Today is Good Shepherd Sunday, and the Church gives us readings every year on the 4th Sunday of Easter that remind us that Jesus is our Good Shepherd and we are his sheep. Jesus says in today's Gospel:
"the sheep hear the shepherd's voice,as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.When he has driven out all his own,he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,because they recognize his voice."
Jesus is calling us by name -- each one of his. Do we hear him? Do we recognize him? Do we respond?
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
Sunday Apr 30, 2017
In today's Gospel we have the famous story of the two disciples who are leaving Jerusalem for Emmaus following the death of Jesus. Jesus comes to walk with them, and they soon find themselves enraptured by what was probably the greatest Bible study ever conducted in history. Yet the Scriptures alone were not enough for them to recognize Jesus. It was not until He celebrated the Eucharist for them that they recognized Him. It was not enough for Him to stay with them... He wanted to be in them... achieving union with them, dwelling in their heart through their partaking of the Eucharist.
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
According to the world's (and our own) standards, Jesus should have written off his apostles after they denied him at the end of his life. Instead of anger or disappointment, however, Jesus answers their betrayal with the words, "Peace be with you." He doesn't appear to them to show his anger or disappointment. He appears to them to show mercy.
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
Sunday Apr 16, 2017
As I grow in my Christian life I realize more and more two things: That I can't. And that God can. Ultimately, this is the message of the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Friday Apr 14, 2017
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
Thursday Apr 13, 2017
The Mass of the Lord's Supper at Holy Thursday commemorates three mysteries: the Institution of the Eucharist, the Institution of the Sacred Priesthood, and the commandment of the Lord to love one another (symbolized in his washing the feet of his disciples).
Wednesday Apr 12, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
Monday Apr 03, 2017
The Fathers of the Church saw in Christ's raising of his friend Lazarus from the dead a symbol of the forgiveness of sin. The darkness of the tomb, the heaviness of the stone covering its exit, the smothering burial cloths that hold Lazarus in bondage are a symbol of what happens to us when we become stuck in sin. This is precisely the spiritual death from which Christ wants to liberate us! Let us let him do this in our life!
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
Sunday Mar 26, 2017
Whenever we read John's Gospel, we have to read on different levels--a literal level and a symbolic level. The symbols from this famous story of Jesus's healing of the man born blind all lead us to one place: the healing of humanity's defect by Christ through baptism. The man emerges from the Pool of Siloam, not seeing with eyes of faith, as "another Christ". He is a symbol of us when we are baptized! Do we live out of this, our truest identity!?