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 […]
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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 […]
May 22, Saturday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER The books that have been our main companions throughout the Easter Season end with the committed, enthusiastic witness to the Good News of Jesus: Paul in his captivity, and Peter, whose martyrdom is predicted, and John, the beloved apostle, who has given a true […]
May 21, Friday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER Many today refuse to accept the shepherd image which God attributes to himself (for example, Ez 24), which Christ claims for himself and which he gave to the apostles. Are the faithful no more than a docile sheep? Are the pope, bishops and priests who “dominate […]
May 20, Thursday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER “May they all be one… May the love with which you loved me be in them, so that I may be in them.” There is perhaps no stronger witnessing – that the world would believe that Jesus is the one sent – than that those who […]
May 19, Wednesday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER One of the songs used much in Church today says, “there’s joy in giving.” In his farewell address, Jesus said to his apostles that he wanted to share his joy with them to the full. And Paul, speaking from his own experience, says that there is […]
May 18, Tuesday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER In strikingly parallel ways, both Paul and Christ speak of their mission they have carried out – Christ with absolute certainty, Paul, knowing his limitations, to the best of his abilities. Paul knows that trials are awaiting him, but led by the Holy Spirit who guided […]
May 17, Monday SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER As Christians baptized in the name of Christ, we have received the Holy Spirit of fortitude. With his help, we should be able to give a place to pain and suffering in our lives. It is part anyway of all human life. But to Christians, it […]
May 15, Saturday SIXTH WEEK OF EASTER When we pray, what do we want God to do? Do we want to transform God with our prayers and bend him to do our own will, or do we seek his will? Do we have time in the dialogue of prayer to listen to him? […]