Spreading the Good News!

In today’s Gospel Jesus employs the image of a Good Shepherd to describe his relationship to us, his flock.  He speaks there of his willi ...
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Today’s readings all call us to conversion and repentance.  That may seem like a Lenten theme; but it is just as much an Easter theme, ev ...
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In the Great Jubilee Year 2000 Saint John Paul II placed into the Church’s liturgical calendar the observance of Divine Mercy Sunday on th ...
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Happy Easter!  In the words of the hymn, “The strife is o’er, the battle done; Now is the Victor’s triumph won.” Having spent six w ...
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Today now goes by the name of “Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.” Like today’s liturgy itself, this name reflects the dual mood of ...
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As we begin the final two weeks of Lent, Jesus announces in today’s Gospel, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.”  ...
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Today is Lætare Sunday, from the first word in Latin of the introit antiphon, “Rejoice, Jerusalem!”  We have reached the midpoint of L ...
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Saint Paul teaches us today that “the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom.” (Second Reading)  This affirms these verses in to ...
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Today’s Gospel tells the story of the Transfiguration.  The Transfiguration occupies a place in the season of Lent similar to its positio ...
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In typical Marcan fashion today’s Gospel succinctly gets right to the point:  Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the desert, wher ...
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