Tuesday of 8th Week in Ordinary Time A HUNDREDFOLD REWARD             The Holy Spirit was already at work in the prophets of the Old Testament, but the Good News of Christ is a much clearer revelation. Set all your hope on ...
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 ASH WEDNESDAY “I Will Serve” Away With All Masks Here Is Lent, Our Favorable Time "I Will Serve” Greeting The peace and reconciliation of the merciful Father be always with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction by the Celebrant ...
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Thursday AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY   Fidelity Brings Life -- Time of Penance Introduction Faithfulness is not easy except if we are intensely committed to a person we love. If we are loyal, we share in the joys and trials of ...
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Friday AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY  Why Fast?                         Introduction People in the Old Testament ask: What is the use of fasting? God seems not to be near when they fast. The prophet tells them because real fasting consists in justice and ...
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Saturday AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Re-creating Encounter            Introduction Jesus came to call sinners. It is they that need him, not so much the just, the righteous. It is the sinners who need healing. We are among them, and so we need ...
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First Sunday Of Lent Jesus Went Through Our Temptations With Jesus in the Desert Greeting (See Second Reading) May the word of God be near you, on your lips and in your heart. May your lips confess here that Jesus ...
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Monday of 1st Week in Lent STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITY, Martyrs            Introduction Today we celebrate two women martyrs from Carthage, North Africa. Perpetua was a noblewoman, Felicity a slave girl. Both were arrested in a raid on Christians. Each ...
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Tuesday of 1st Week in Lent Word from God and Word to God               Introduction God speaks his word to people in many ways: first of all, his word-in-action, that is, his saving deeds; his words written down in ...
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Wednesday of 1st Week in Lent Conversion Introduction Even for pagans, even for those known for their cruelty, like the people that enslaved the Jews, it is possible to be converted. When the author of the Book of Jonah told ...
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Thursday of 1st Week in Lent   I Have No Helper But You     Introduction Prayer discloses all the riches of God’s goodness to us. God cannot resist us when we turn to him in our misery, in our needs, ...
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Friday of 1st Week in Lent Personal Responsibility -- Eucharist and Reconciliation Introduction Often we blame the community and “the system” for the evils of society and for the sins we commit. This shrugging off of responsibility is a timeless ...
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Saturday of 1st Week in Lent Gratuitous Covenant Love Introduction The life of a pious Jew could be summed up as a response to God’s covenant of love with a covenant loyalty. This is also the life of a Christian, ...
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Second Sunday Of Lent A Transfiguring Light With Jesus on the Mountain Greeting (See Second Reading) The Lord Jesus Christ will transform our perishable human bodies and make them glorious like his own. May his light and peace be with ...
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Monday of 2nd Week in Lent   The Sinner Seeks Forgiveness Introduction Acknowledging sin, being sorry for it and seeking forgiveness is a reality that can only exist where there is genuine friendship and the awareness that this friendship has ...
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Tuesday of 2nd Week in Lent   Religion is Interior -- No Hypocrisy Introduction When we know our faith and practice our religious duties and observances – when we go to Mass and the sacraments and practice penance during Lent ...
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Wednesday of 2nd Week in Lent  Suffering of the Prophet  Introduction A prophet is always an annoying person. His mission is to call attention to the signs of the times – to denounce what no one dares denounce, to prod ...
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Thursday of 2nd Week in Lent   People Suffer. See Their Needs Introduction Those who place their faith in themselves and in the means they possess are not open to God or God’s kingdom. They make themselves their own gods ...
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Friday of 2nd Week in Lent   Suffering Saves             Introduction Joseph suffered because his brothers were jealous. Yet later he would save them from famine. Jesus was rejected and died for our sins. He became the keystone for a ...
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SOLEMNITY OF ST. JOSEPH   Patron of the Church  Introduction Today’s gospel calls Joseph “a just man.” It is a title that the scriptures of the Old and the New Testaments give to people who try to live according to ...
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Third Sunday Of Lent Unless You Repent I Have Seen the Misery of My People Greeting (See First Reading) The Lord says: ”I have seen the misery of my people; I have heard their cry to be free; I am ...
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Monday of 3rd Week in Lent   Salvation for Pagans Introduction Today’s liturgy thinks especially of converts who are baptized and immersed into the baptismal water. Are conversion and missionary action still valid? Why be concerned about unknown, distant peoples? ...
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Tuesday of 3rd Week in Lent Forgive Us As We Forgive Introduction We don’t like too much – or not at all – to acknowledge it, but we have been forgiven a lot. Open, scandalous, upsetting sins... maybe not. Probably ...
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Wednesday of 3rd Week in Lent Commandments: Sign of Freedom and Love                         Introduction What is the meaning of the commandments to us? To some, they are the summary and summit of all morality; to others, narrow and outmoded ...
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Thursday of 3rd Week in Lent        Listening to God’s Word                                            Introduction “Listen to my voice,” says God through his prophet Jeremiah, and then, he complains that God’s people fails to listen, that they ...
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ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD Introduction We celebrate today the solemn feast of the Annunciation. “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” said the old missal. That was correct, in a way, for the angel came to announce glad tidings to Mary ...
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Saturday of 3rd Week in Lent God Sees What It Is In Us      Introduction We cannot save ourselves by rites and practices. Sin is forgiven and lasting happiness found in an encounter of love with God. If we recognize ...
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Fourth Sunday Of Lent A Father Prodigal with His Love  m A Scandalizing Mercy Greeting (See Second Reading) Blessed be God our Father who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has entrusted to us the work of reconciliation ...
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Monday of 4th Week in Lent  Faith in the Future                                                                      Introduction For people who believe, the golden age lies in the future, not in the past, says the third section of the book of Isaiah. Before the exile, ...
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Tuesday of 4th Week in Lent The Waters of Paradise Introduction Water flows from the Temple and turns the land into a fertile paradise, bringing health and life, says Ezekiel. But this living Temple is Christ, says John. Encountering him ...
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Wednesday of 4th Week in Lent                                  My Father and I                                  Are Still Working   Introduction When Jesus is questioned and blamed for curing ...
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Thursday of 4th Week in Lent Jesus Mediator Introduction From today on and in the Holy Week, the opposition between the Jewish leaders and Jesus is growing. People always tend to adore their own god – a god or gods ...
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