Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Throughout the course of salvation history, God has chosen for himself leaders and prophets to be his instruments in speaking to and guiding his people. A key figure in the Old Testament is Moses, whom...
View ArticleThe Presentation of the Lord
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...
View ArticleFifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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...
View ArticleSixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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...
View ArticleAsh Wednesday
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...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Ashen Triduum
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, but the First Week of Lent begins with the First Sunday. This leaves the three days between Ash Wednesday and the First Sunday in an unusual liturgical interval; they...
View ArticleFirst Sunday of Lent
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...
View ArticleSecond Sunday of Lent
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...
View ArticleThird Sunday of Lent
The God who has revealed himself to us, and in whom we believe, is a God of loving and lasting relationships. He is a God of covenant love. His commandments, such as the well-known Ten Commandments...
View ArticleFourth Sunday of Lent
The Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Laetare Sunday, which means “Rejoice Sunday.” The readings given for our meditation tell us why we should rejoice. We rejoice because, as Jesus announces very...
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