Spreading the Good News!

Today we celebrate the third of the three solemnities of the Easter season, the Solemnity of Pentecost.  Pentecost is the Greek name of a J ...
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Today we celebrate the second of the three solemnities of the Easter season, the Ascension of the Lord.  The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of ...
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The Apostle John, traditionally regarded as “the beloved disciple,” in today’s Second Reading gives us the simplest and yet most profo ...
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In last Sunday’s Gospel Jesus spoke of his relationship to us with the image of the Good Shepherd.  It is an image of nurturing and prote ...
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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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