Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sometimes our call as missionary disciples is truly challenging. It is, after all, a call to follow Jesus in the way of the Cross. It demands detachment and firm commitment, as we saw last Sunday. But we should not conclude from all this that discipleship is all...

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Today we celebrate the most central faith mystery of all, the mystery of God himself, the Holy Trinity. How can we even begin to talk about the mystery of God? In our effort to think about him, we find ourselves lost in the limitless, timeless, incomprehensible divine...

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

It is most fitting that today, Monday after the Solemnity of the Pentecost, we celebrate the new Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. It can rightly be said that Pentecost is the day that the mission of the Church started, the day when the...

Seventh Sunday of Easter

We are almost at the end of the Easter Season. Next week we will begin the long stretch of Ordinary Time, which will extend from the Feast of Pentecost until Saturday of the 34th Week of the Year. This time between the Ascension and Pentecost gives us an opportunity...

Sixth Sunday of Easter

In the sixth week of Easter, we continue to ponder with hope the promise of sharing life with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our reading from the Book of Revelation takes us to heaven, to the eternal Kingdom where we shall dwell with the Trinity. John speaks of it...