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Easter Sunday: Day of Deliverance and Victory
Today’s Gospel describes an absence that confounds the disciples, preparing them for the Presence their hearts desire. Gospel (Read Jn 20:1-9) On Palm Sunday, the narrative of our Lord’s Passion ended...
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Divine Mercy Sunday and the Meaning of the Resurrection
Today’s Gospel records a post-Resurrection appearance of Jesus in which His mercy to sinners begins to flow. Watch out! There is no stopping it. Gospel (Read Jn 20:19-31) The celebration of our...
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Current Sacramental Preparation is Failing Lost Souls
Earlier this week, my spiritual daughter texted to tell me that the course she and her husband took in preparation for their baby girl’s Baptism was a 20-minute YouTube video. That was the entire...
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Jesus’ Eucharistic Virtues
Have you ever pondered Jesus’ Eucharistic Virtues? St. Peter Julian Eymard, “the Apostle of the Eucharist,” did. He wrote the following: Few persons think of the virtues, the life, the state of our...
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Experience The Transforming Power of Divine Mercy
A Follow-Up to Divine Mercy Sunday 2024 “You are I know the most incapable person, weak and sinful, but just because you are that, I want to use you, for my glory.” It may surprise us to know that...
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Time and Christianity
Out of necessity, humans have latched onto dating systems and chronologies as the means by which we keep track of ourselves in time. We keep track of where we are through our age, by the face of a...
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God’s Love: Perfect Justice Combined with Perfect Mercy
Love, suffering, and death have a uniquely interrelated relationship. To understand love, one must know sacrifice and therefore be acquainted with suffering. Jesus modeled this relationship by...
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God Fights for our Freedom to Worship
From the time that Israel began its sojourn in Egypt until its liberation under Moses, although God’s Chosen People were not in the land that was their inheritance through Abraham, they seem to have...
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The Despair of the Philosophes
The period known as the Enlightenment (c. 1685-1815) was a critical moment in the history of Christendom, as it saw the emergence of a system of thought hostile to Christianity and the rise of...
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Have You Been Freed From Ignorance?
“Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did.” In these words, St. Peter speaks about the greatest act of ignorance in human history and its disastrous...
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