June 3, 2018 Holy Body and Blood of Christ Sunday
Today we celebrate the Feast of “The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ” (Corpus Christi). The body of Christ came about through his suffering, death and resurrection. When we eat his body, we proclaim the paschal mystery with the people gathered, the stories proclaimed and the priest who acts...
May 26, 2018 Holy Trinity Sunday
Before we can look at the question of the Blessed Trinity we have to decide for ourselves whether we believe or not there is a God. Most people believe in one, even if that God is themselves. The Jews, of course, believe in a God. He is the God of...
May 20, 2018 Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost means fifty – seven weeks plus one day – fifty days after Easter. The Jews called it Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, the feast of the Harvest, or the feast of the First Fruits. Whatever way we look at this feast it denotes the end of a period of...
May 13, 2018 Feast of the Ascension Sunday
The Bible is divided into the time before Jesus, the time of Jesus, and the time between Jesus and the final restoration of the reign of heaven. The communities described in Acts, and us too, are all lodged in this third period of time. The Acts of the Apostles is...
May 6, 2018 Sixth Sunday of Easter
Every mature Christian comes to a point in life when he realizes that none of the things he really desires are within his own reach. And what’s more, he comes to understand that the things he can achieve are not the things he really wants, or at least, not the things...