FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY THE JOY OF DISCOVERING THE HIDDEN MYSTERY Introduction We do not have an exclusive right to faith in God. However, the assertion that, in the one God, there is paternity, affiliation, and a gift of love is specific to Christianity. With an abstract term, not biblical and certainly inadequate, […]
May 25, Tuesday EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME “Honor the Lord with generosity… Add a smiling face to all your gifts” says the first reading. The advice of Ben Sirach is for honest persons to thank God by offering sacrifices, but God will not accept sacrifices from dishonest people, for he accepts no bribes. What […]
May 24, Monday EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Ben Sirach states that all, even the just, are affected by sin and therefore he sounds a call for penance. The young man of the gospel is proud, perhaps a bit pharisaically, to have observed the commandments since his childhood. But Jesus asks more: for […]
May 23, Sunday Pentecost Sunday There are days when life looks drab to us, too much like a repetitious, boring routine. Our faith too may impress us as unexciting, monotonous and tiring and cheerless. Today’s feast of Pentecost reminds us: life, especially the life of faith, is marvelous, thanks to the Spirit of […]
