Mary Mother of the Church

by | May 23, 2021 | Meditations

Yesterday’s solemnity, Pentecost Sunday, is celebrated as the “birthday of the Church.” Where there is a birth, there must be a mother. Today’s memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church was officially added to the liturgical calendar in 2018, so that the day after the...

Pentecost Sunday

by | May 22, 2021 | Meditations

With today’s Solemnity of Pentecost, the glorious Easter season comes to a fiery culmination. The divine Fire that ignites Christian faith and proclamation is what sent the Apostles forth to set the world ablaze. The connection with Easter is clear from the Gospel...

Seventh Sunday of Easter

by | May 15, 2021 | Meditations

Last Thursday we celebrated the Ascension of the Lord. We watched with the Apostles as Jesus rose into Heaven, and we heard the angels promise us: “This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into...

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

by | May 12, 2021 | Meditations

Six weeks ago we celebrated the amazing event of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. Indeed, we have continued celebrating his triumph over sin and death, and his rising to new life, throughout the weeks of the Easter Season. Our first reading today gives us a good...

Sixth Sunday of Easter

by | May 8, 2021 | Meditations

St. John tells in today’s second reading that God is Love. It is to this Love that the Easter season, our fifty-day journey celebrating the Easter mystery, keeps directing us. The essence of God is his love, which is most powerfully expressed through the Death of...

Fifth Sunday of Easter

by | May 1, 2021 | Meditations

We continue to ponder the mystery, power, and beauty of the Resurrection. When we encounter the Risen Lord Jesus, it is an intimate encounter with Love, for, as St. John writes in his First Letter, “God is love” (1 Jn 4:16). Today’s first reading shows us how the...