Second Sunday of Lent

by | Feb 27, 2021 | Meditations

The course of time keeps speeding by. It seems that Christmas was just a few days ago and now we are already in the second week of Lent. As we know, Lent (Quadragesima) is the forty-day penitential season that culminates in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus. In the...

First Sunday of Lent

by | Feb 20, 2021 | Meditations

On this first Sunday, the Gospel brings us to the roots of the Lenten journey in the life of Christ – his temptation in the desert. All the synoptic Gospels narrate this episode; after his baptism by John, Christ entered the desert. We will begin our pondering this...

Ash Wednesday

by | Feb 16, 2021 | Meditations

One of the purposes of Lent is to awaken within us an awareness of our desperate need to be reconciled to God, so that we will return to him with our whole heart. Ash Wednesday places before us the opportunity and the challenge to admit our sinfulness and our need of...

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Feb 13, 2021 | Meditations

Our theme for this week includes these words: “Let us devote ourselves with all our being to the glory of God and the service of our neighbor.” This reflects what St. Paul urges us in the second reading: “Whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.” Paul...

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Feb 6, 2021 | Meditations

Beginning tomorrow and continuing throughout this week we will be reading from the Book of Genesis, starting with the account of how God created the heavens and the earth. As the crowning achievement of creation, God fashioned Adam and Eve, made in his own image and...

The Presentation of the Lord

by | Feb 1, 2021 | Meditations

Forty days have passed since we celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ. Today, we celebrate his Presentation in the Temple. It may seem at first that this feast merely recalls what Mary and Joseph did in ritual compliance with the law; they took their child to the...