Good Friday is the darkest and most solemn day of the Church’s year, a day that draws many people to the Lord. We come carrying the burdens of our hearts: our sorrows and our joys, our experiences of death and of life. We bring before God our own lives, often marked by pain, mystery, and the struggle between dying and [...]
This day marks the beginning of the Sacred Triduum, opened by Jesus’ commandment at the Last Supper: the commandment of love, which stands at the very heart of his entire ministry. This mission flows from the Father’s great plan of love, revealed through the Incarnation: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in [...]
A Week to Feel His Profound Love Today’s Gospel reading reveals the depths of divine love through Jesus’ suffering and sacrifice. This passage is enormously long! As we stand to listen to the Gospel proclaimed during Mass, you may feel your knees buckle a little or your back begin to ache. Small children in the pews will fiddle and whine. [...]
Today we begin Holy Week, the most solemn week in the Church’s year. It opens with the procession of palms, recalling Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem not as an all-conquering warrior, but as a gentle and humble bearer of the Good News. Jesus comes in glory, but it is not the kind of glory the people expected. They were looking for [...]
Jesus’ Timing Jesus loved Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, so He waited. This is such a difficult passage to swallow. Like Martha, who cries to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died,” we, too, cry out to Jesus when the answers we seek are long in coming. I found the disciples' reaction to Jesus’ decision [...]
Dear brothers and sisters, death is an experience that every human person must face, and the loss of a loved one often brings deep sorrow and tears. In today’s Gospel, we hear about the illness and death of Lazarus, a dear friend of Jesus. When Jesus was first told that Lazarus was sick, He remained where He was for two [...]
Look Into The Heart “Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the LORD looks into the heart." Have you ever read this and wondered, ‘God, what about all of David’s sins around the adultery with Bathsheba even though he had so many wives already, the murder of her husband, neglect of his sons - [...]
Dear brothers and sisters, today’s Gospel reveals to us the frightening amount of darkness that exists in the world. This darkness is not only physical; it is mainly spiritual. Many people struggle to move from doubt to simple faith. The Gospel invites us to reflect on the growth of faith in our lives. The climax of the story comes when [...]
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Ripple Effects of Encountering Christ Every nuance of the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman reveals His merciful, loving, and compassionate heart. It begins with the place He chooses to meet her—Samaria, a land considered unclean by Jewish standards. Her presence at the well, especially at noon, suggests she is avoiding others, burdened by shame. Yet Jesus waits for [...]