by Greg Beben | Apr 23, 2022 | Meditations
In today’s selection from the Acts of the Apostles, we read, “Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the Apostles.” Because the Church was at the very beginning of her life, many signs were needed to move people to faith or to strengthen...
by Greg Beben | Apr 16, 2022 | Meditations
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!” Happy Easter to all! The highest point of the Church’s liturgical calendar, the Easter Triduum, which started at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, reaches its climax today. Easter Sunday is...
by Greg Beben | Apr 9, 2022 | Meditations
Today is the start of the Holy Week that leads us to the summit of the liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum, commemorating Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Palm Sunday gives us abundant material to ponder for this week. As Pope Francis points out, today’s...
by Greg Beben | Apr 2, 2022 | Meditations
In the Gospel for today we are given the figure of the woman caught in adultery. Let us take a moment and consider the situation of this woman. The reading does not tell us anything more about her. We can suppose that this was not the first act of adultery she ever...
by Greg Beben | Mar 26, 2022 | Meditations
In the tradition of the Church, the Fourth Sunday of Lent has been known as Laetare Sunday. The name comes from the first word of today’s entrance antiphon in Latin, laetare, meaning “rejoice.” With Easter Sunday now twenty-one days away, we are symbolically at the...
by Greg Beben | Mar 24, 2022 | Meditations
Today we ponder an unimaginable wonder: the conception of God as man in the womb of a young virgin. The miracle that takes place in secret at the Annunciation will remain an unseen mystery for nine months, until the day we celebrate the birth of God as man on December...
