Fourth week of Easter “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Jn 14:1-6: Life is full of uncertainties, challenges, and obstacles. Often, we find ourselves at crossroads where we don’t know which direction to

Fourth week of Easter Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac Proper Liturgy of the Eucharist – Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac “I make everything new.” Rev. 21:5. The allegory that the liturgy brings us today is beautiful and hopeful.

Fourth week of Easter “It is not you who chose me, but I who chose you.” John 15:9-17 Today’s Gospel presents us with an opportunity to review our lives as disciples of Jesus. Let us focus

Fourth week of Easter “I and the Father are one.” Jn. 10:22-30. Our Lady of Fatima Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, remembering the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to the three

Fourth week of Easter “I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.” Jn. 10:11 In today’s Gospel the words of Jesus resonate fully. He is the Shepherd, He is the one who calls us

Fourth week of Easter Good Shepherd World Day of Prayer for Priestly Vocations “I give eternal life to my sheep” Jn. 10:27. One of the vital elements of the first Christian communities was the WORD…the Word

Third Week of Easter “To whom shall we go to?” Jn. 6:60-69 Today’s gospel brings the final part of the Bread of Life Discourse. It is about the disciples’ discussion with each other and with Jesus,

Third Week of Easter “Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.” Jn 6:52-59 Once again…obstinate in their models of who God should be, Jesus’ contemporaries and religious leaders did not accept his liberating message, nor

Third Week of Easter “This is the will of the Father, that everyone who sees the Son should have eternal life.” Jn. 6:35-40 In this short reading from John’s Gospel, we can observe some categorical statements

Third Week of Easter “What signs do you do that we may see and believe in you? What work do you do?” Jn 6:30-35 In today’s gospel people wanted to see spectacular signs in Jesus in

Third Week of Easter “The Bread of Life” Jn. 6:22-29 This passage challenges us to reflect on our motivations in seeking Jesus. Do we seek Him for who He is, or only for what He can

Second Week of Easter Five barley loaves and two fish. Jn. 6:1-15 The gesture of a young man… That young man, without a name or face, is going to make possible what seems impossible. His willingness

Today’s Gospel tells us that the one who works evil cannot bear the light because the light shines where there is truth, justice, and sincerity. Jesus came to be the light of the world as Isaiah

It is disconcerting in today’s Gospel to read that final sentence: sending on a mission that seems utopian when we stop to see who is sending, who is being sent and at what time. It is

Once again, this account of Luke’s Gospel invites us to reflect, to discover something wonderful that we did not expect. The two disciples were going towards Emmaus full of disappointment, thinking about what they had experienced

That encounter between Mary Magdalene and the Risen One is very telling and moving. She recognizes him when she is called by her name; she cannot doubt that it is He, her teacher, whom she sought

On this Monday after Easter, the Gospel presents us with the passage of the women who, on going to the tomb of Jesus, find it empty and see an angel who announces to them that Jesus

On this first day of the week, already illuminated by the Resurrection of Jesus, the Gospel invites us to join those who continue to seek Jesus in the darkness, those who accompanied him at the crossside

With the Resurrection of Jesus, God infused in the world a longing for life that impels us to the hereafter… a hope that ends only with death when we too enter the fullness of life. Let

In today’s liturgy we contemplate a terrible, overwhelming historical event, the bearer of a mystery that overwhelms us: the fact of Jesus’ death on the Cross and the mystery of life and salvation that arise from

The Liturgy of Holy Thursday is the most demanding of the Easter cycle. Jesus leaves us a mandate that takes on its full meaning in the context of the Last Supper where Jesus proclaimed it. The

Let us continue to try to penetrate the feelings of Jesus in those final days of his life. Today’s scene is deeply moving and revealing; Jesus reveals to his disciples the betrayal He is about to

Today’s text contrasts with the environment in which the Gospel of these days has been placing us: the imminent arrival of the hour of Jesus. Today we find him in Bethany, the place of his rest,

It is striking to contemplate how Jesus, tired of his diatribes with the Jews, trying to make them understand that God was their Father and that He had come into the world to announce that they,

For the Jews, feeling like children of Abraham was a kind of title of honor that gave them recognition and credibility; their faith in Abraham was the way of saying that they were sons of Isaac

Truth and freedom are two words that seduce us; we easily think that we understand them, but how difficult it is to combine them and even more so to make them guide our lives. Truth and

Jesus continues to try to make known to the Jews his true identity: He reveals himself in his constant reference to God his Father; but his listeners, guided only by the criteria of the world to

Today’s text invites us to meet Jesus at a time when he himself solemnly declares: “I am the light of the world; he who follows me does not walk in darkness”. How much we need to

This is not the first time that Jesus speaks of his “hour”; He was well aware that his life in this world had a measured time and a mission, and that the Father would show him

In this long diatribe of Jesus with the Jews, Jesus clearly shows how his life has no other reason for being than to fulfill the mission for which He has been sent, and that mission is