Ascension Sunday – June 1, 2025 As a liturgical feast, the Solemnity of the Ascension is primarily the beginning of a nine-day novena in preparation for the Solemnity of Pentecost. (This is clearer in dioceses where Ascension remains on the … Read More
Seventh Sunday of Easter – June 1, 2025 The Masses of the Sundays of Easter time are also called the “Masses for the neophytes,” those newly baptized. These “new Christs” have been grafted to him through baptism. As their name … Read More
Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 25, 2025 The reading today from the Acts of the Apostles recounts an early church conflict. The new Christian community could have fractured at its beginnings if it had not been committed to staying … Read More
Fourth Sunday of Easter – May 11, 2025 As we move into the middle of the Easter season and, for some, the warmth of summer, we might be feeling a post-meal nap coming on following last week’s breakfast on the … Read More
Third Sunday of Easter – May 4, 2025 “Come, have breakfast.” How often have we heard those words or something similar in our lifetime? Mothers, grandmothers, dads, lovers, hosts, all inviting us to eat. Strangers and soon-to-be-friends asking us to … Read More
Second Sunday of Easter – April 27, 2025 Ten-year-old Laura Lentz’s father examined the letter she was writing to her favorite cousin. “All you do is write about yourself,” the future author recalled him saying. He placed another paper in … Read More
Fifth Sunday of Lent – April 6, 2025 Last Sunday’s backstory of the Israelites crossing the Jordan River as they had once done at the Red Sea is a good lead-in to today’s first reading. But it also seems to … Read More
Fourth Sunday of Lent – Mar 30, 2025 Led by Joshua, successor to Moses, and following the Ark of the Covenant, the Israelites finally arrive at the banks of the Jordan. Forty years earlier, they also stood on a shoreline … Read More
Third Sunday of Lent – Mar 23, 2025 Burning bushes and barren fig trees, a call to lead and a call to repent. The connection between today’s first reading and its paired Gospel passage isn’t immediately obvious. Perhaps that is … Read More
