Acts 5:27b-32, 40b-41; Ps 30; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19 Commentary Restarting from the EssentialIt is significant that on the third Sunday of Easter we hear the story of the third apparition of the [...]
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Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118; Rev 1:9-11, 12-13, 17, 19; Jn 20:19-31 Commentary Resurrecting for the Mission: The Mission of the Sent One of God and His Disciples“Peace be with you.” These are the [...]
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THE MASS OF EASTER DAYActs 10:34a,37-43; Ps 118; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 COMMENTARY Seeing the signs of the resurrection“Alleluia! Christ is risen!” With joy we greet each other on this [...]
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The Commemoration of the Lord’s Entrance into JerusalemLk 19:28-40 At the MassIs 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 COMMENTARY The Heart of Divine Mission Palm Sunday is also called Passion [...]
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Is 43:16-21; Ps 126; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 COMMENTARY Misera et Misericordia “The Misery and Mercy”With this fifth Sunday of Lent, we are approaching the final phase of the Lenten Journey. It is actually the [...]
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Jos 5:9a,10-12; Ps 34; 2Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3,11-32 COMMENTARY The Return to the Joy of the Father “The Fourth Sunday of Lent is suffused with light, a light reflected on this ‘Laetare Sunday’ [‘Rejoice!’] by vestments [...]
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Ex 3:1-8a,13-15; Ps 103; 1Cor 10:1-6,10-12; Lk 13:1-9 COMMENTARY Called to ConversionOn this Sunday we are approaching the middle of Lent and therefore also the center of the whole Lenten [...]
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Gn 15:5-12,17-18; Ps 27; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28b-36 COMMENTARY Transfigured on the Way“The Gospel on the second Sunday of Lent is always the account of the Transfiguration” says theHomiletic Directory (no. 64) which further explains authoritatively: “The Transfiguration holds an [...]
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Dt 26:4-10; Ps 91; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13 COMMENTARY Toward a Missionary Christian Conversion Time flies and we arrive at a new Lent of our life. It is always the “venerable and sacred time,” as the Church reminds us [...]
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