On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” We awoke on Easter Monday to the news of the passing of Pope Francis....
We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. Consequently, you, too, must think of yourselves as being dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus. Taken from the sixth chapter of St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, the...
They proclaimed: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. (Hosanna in the Highest) In his book Jesus of Nazareth from the Entry into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, Pope Benedict XVI offers a detailed analysis of Jesus Christ’s final week in...
Forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus. Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan is the subject of a recent biographical film “A Complete Unknown.” I have...
We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. St. Paul in today’s second reading, implores us to be reconciled to God. To be reconciled, to be loved, to be wrapped in the Father’s mercy—this is what Christ seeks for us. This is the mission of Jesus, plain...
There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush. Moses decided, “I must go over to look at this remarkable sight.” Moses was out in the middle of nowhere, tending the flock, free to be with his own thoughts, when his life is interrupted by...
