The Kingdom Needs You Jesus’ Heart, ever overflowing with love, is moved with pity for the people before Him. He sees their struggles, their anguish, their abandonment, their desires. He sees that they are “like sheep without a shepherd,” and it is clear that there must be more “laborers for the harvest.” Jesus is fulfilling the ancient promises to erect [...]
Our meditation today focuses on the Divine Call. This call can be addressed either to an individual person or to a group of people, as we see in today’s readings. In the first reading, God speaks to the people of Israel through his servant Moses. He reminds them that they have been chosen from among all nations to be his [...]
The Eucharist: Flesh and Blood Is your parish celebrating this Solemnity with a Corpus Christi Procession? This traditional way of honoring the Eucharist goes back to the 1300’s, and is a beautiful public proclamation of our faith in Christ’s real presence in the Sacrament. What exactly does our Faith teach about the Eucharist (which comes from the Greek word for [...]
Corpus Christi Sunday makes us renew our belief in the Real Presence of Jesus, Our Lord in the Eucharist. The bread and wine used during the Holy Mass are transformed during epiclesis into the very substance and essence of Our Lord Himself, who is truly present in Body, Heart, Mind, Soul and Divinity. This is the Dogma of the Transubstantiation, [...]
That All May be Saved In today's Gospel we read perhaps the most quoted verse of Scripture, that "God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life." It's printed on t-shirts, coffee mugs, those fancy picture frames that everyone has hanging in their [...]
The Most Holy Trinity is the greatest mystery at the heart of our Christian faith. We profess belief in one God, yet those outside the Christian faith may wonder how Christians can speak of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit while still proclaiming one God. This truth is rooted in the faith of Israel: “Hear, O Israel! The [...]
Filled with the Same Spirit A week before Pentecost in 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed by a white police officer. Despite raucous public outcry over how Floyd was treated in his last moments of life and his resulting death, this was not the only, but rather the most publicized, situation of what many considered racial profiling [...]
Today, as we celebrate the great feast of Pentecost, we bring to completion the joyful journey of Easter. Throughout this Easter season, the Church has led us through the stages of witness, preparation, mission, and evangelization. Now, at Pentecost, we celebrate the birth of the Church and her consecration in the Holy Spirit. The coming of the Holy Spirit marks [...]
The Great Commission "He would be everywhere, whenever his friends gathered to pray. He would continue to act through them just as he promised: forgiving sins, sharing mercy, bringing young and old into the embrace of eternal life through Baptism, and feeding their very souls with himself, the Bread of Life. He would remain on earth through his Church." (Great [...]
“Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven”. These words sum up the mystery of the Ascension which is the climax of his victory over sin and death. It is a [...]