Third Sunday Of Easter   Encountering the Risen Lord Perhaps we envy the apostles for having seen and experienced Jesus after he had risen from the dead. There is no reason to be envious of them: If we have faith, ...
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Monday of 3rd Week in Easter ATHANASIUS, Bishop, Church doctor St. Athanasius (295-273), patriarch of Alexandria, was a bishop living in a time of great crisis for the Church just after the Roman persecutions. He defended the divinity of Christ ...
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STS. PHILIP AND JAMES THE LESSER, Apostles, Feast             We honor today two apostles: Philip was one of the first disciples to be called by Jesus. James the lesser, brother of the apostle Jude, succeeded Peter as the head of ...
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Wednesday of 3rd Week in Easter   Persecution, Bread of Life   The fervor of the young Church is so contagious, that even in persecution Christians use the occasion of the persecution itself to preach the risen Christ. Indeed, God ...
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Thursday of 3rd Week in Easter   Encountering Christ in Word and Sacrament           Luke presents the conversion of the treasurer of the queen of Ethiopia very much in parallel with that of the disciples of Emmaus. The latter had ...
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Friday of 3rd Week in Easter   Christ Lives in Me      “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” This is the question of Jesus the Lord when he lets Saul, the persecutor, encounter him on the way to Damascus ...
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Saturday of 3rd Week in Easter   Lord, to Whom Shall We Go To? Once there was peace, the Church of the Risen Lord continued to grow throughout the Holy Land. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Peter continues ...
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER I Call Them by Their Name The Voice of the Shepherd   Notes. 1. Remember that today is the World Day of Vocations. What is said of Jesus is applicable also to the shepherds who take ...
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Monday of 4th Week in Easter                                Open Church: All Are Called                                     Introduction “I have come that they may have life – life in ...
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Tuesday of 4th Week in Easter                                          A New Missionary Approach                                           Introduction The Christians of Antioch, the first ...
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Wednesday of 4th Week in Easter Christ Our Light Eternal Life   Introduction “I came not to judge the world but to save the world,” says Jesus to us today. What he came to bring us is life, life without ...
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Thursday of 4th Week in Easter Servants With Christ                                        Introduction In his preaching, Paul presents Christ as the one who is coming which the whole Old Testament was leading to, and John the Baptist as the immediate announcer ...
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Friday of 4th Week in Easter  The Way, the Truth, the Life                                Introduction In the synagogue, Paul proclaims the risen Christ. That Christ is risen is not merely an important event of the past: it is, as ...
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MATTHIAS, APOSTLE, Feast   Introduction Matthias was elected by the apostles to replace Judas, the traitor, because he had been a disciple of Jesus from the very beginning, from the time when Jesus was baptized by John until the ascension ...
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FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Love Is Inventive See How They Love One Another   Greeting (See Second Reading) God lives among his people, he makes his home among us in his Son Jesus Christ. In Jesus, may he be our ...
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Monday of 5th Week in Easter God Living in Us   Introduction             In the first reading, Luke shows Paul working the same signs among pagans as Peter among the Jews (here the cure of a crippled person), and preaching ...
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Tuesday of 5th Week in Easter   The Peace of Christ   Introduction             In carrying out his mission of proclaiming the Gospel, Paul and Barnabas with him, is persecuted, stoned, driven from one place to another. He doesn’t give ...
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Wednesday of 5th Week in Easter One in the True Vine -- Factions in the Church   Introduction             Implanted by baptism in Christ, the true vine, and therefore, by vocation and by our being Christians, we are called to ...
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Thursday of 5th Week in Easter All Are Welcome In the Church              Introduction In full collegiality, the apostles decided at the Council of Jerusalem that the Church is to be open to all without any distinction. All are saved ...
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Friday of 5th Week in Easter  You Are My Friends     Introduction             Fraternal love among Christians, but also love of all people for one another, without boundaries or reservations is inseparable from friendship with God. Both loves are in ...
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Saturday of 5th Week in Easter                                 Rejected With Christ                                            Introduction The world that has rejected Christ hates Christ and his disciples; ...
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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER The Farewell Gifts of Jesus The Spirit Will Teach You Greeting (See the Gospel) As the Spirit reminds us of Jesus’ teaching, may the love of the Father and the Son and the peace of our ...
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Monday of 6th Week in Easter  You Bear Witness!       Introduction We should not regret that the octave of Pentecost has been abolished. Two weeks from now to Pentecost, our attention is focused on the Spirit. Either the readings or ...
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Tuesday of 6th Week in Easter The Spirit Witnesses Against the World              Introduction             The life of Christ which the community of Christ leads and the mentality of Christ alive is in the Church, will bear witness ...
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Wednesday of 6th Week in Easter The Spirit of the Truth God Dwelling Among Us       Introduction             The apostles should not be sad because Jesus leaves them. Their faith will become deeper and more spiritual when Jesus is no ...
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PHILIP NERI, Priest Introduction St. Philip Neri was a priest of Rome in the 16th century. He founded the Oratorians, a congregation for secular priests. At a time of religious decadence, he did much to revive a true religious sense ...
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Friday of 6th Week in Easter  The Test of Suffering and Renewal                   Introduction Jesus was going to pass through his passion and death on the way to the joy of his resurrection. In him, a new risen and glorious ...
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Saturday of 6th Week in Easter Praying in Jesus’ Name God’s Will   Introduction             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 ...
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THE LORD’S ASCENSION Glorious, Yet Still with Us An End and a New Beginning Note. We follow the complete set of readings for the Year C as given in the new edition of the Lectionary of 1981. The first reading ...
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Monday of 7th Week in Easter The Cross and the Disciple       Introduction             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 ...
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Visitation of Mary, Feast                      Introduction Luke presents Mary as the Ark of the Covenant coming to Jerusalem to show that God is present among his people to bring them joy. This is why the child leaps (that is, dances ...
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