Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 15:12-17 Today’s Gospel continues the Last Supper discourse, and both at the beginning and the end of the passage Christ tells His disciples that “His commandment,” the one thing that they must do, is love one another. There are two passages that warrant some consideration, and […]
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 15:9-11 In today’s Gospel, a whole three verses, Jesus continues with the Last Supper discourse, asking His disciples to remain in His love so that His joy might be in them, and their joy might be complete. The Greek word John uses for joy is χαρά
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 15:1-8 In today’s Gospel Jesus uses the beautiful image of the true vine and His Heavenly Father as the vinedresser. We can examine that image, and consider three elements: first, the relationship the vinedresser has to the vine, second, the vinedresser’s actions, and,
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 14:27-31a Today’s Gospel continues the readings we’ve been hearing from the Last Supper discourse, and it begins with Christ’s words and command to His Apostles, a command that all of us would do well to heed: Christ tells them “Peace I leave with you; my peace
Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter – Jn 14:21-26 Last Thursday, we started taking the Gospel readings for daily Mass from the Last Supper discourse in John’s Gospel, and today’s Gospel continues with a sort of difficult passage. However, we can break it down and consider just two small pieces, and how they apply
Fifth Sunday of Easter – Year A Acts 6:1-7, Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19, 1 Pt 2:4-9, Jn 14:1-12 Dear brothers and sisters, as you might know, this week we will celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. That feast, on May 13th, recalls the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima to the children.
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter Today’s Gospel, from the early verses of chapter 14 of John’s Gospel, is one that we’ve heard and will hear about four times: we heard verses 6-14 on Wednesday for Saints Philip and James, verses 1-6 on Friday, verses 7-14 today, Saturday, and verses 1-12 tomorrow. So,
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 14:1-6 Jesus offers some very comforting words in today’s Gospel, as He tells us not to be troubled, that He will prepare a dwelling place for us in heaven, and that He will even come back for us. It calls our attention that
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter – Jn 13:16-20Today’s Gospel reading might strike us as an odd one during this Easter season: it comes from the Last Supper discourse, yet the tone and Jesus’ injunctions seem rather sad. We can divide the passage into three parts: first, Christ’s injunction regarding the need for humility,
Feast of Saints Philip and James – May 3rdToday we celebrate the feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, known as “the lesser.” Very little is known about James, and no one is really sure why he is called the lesser: tradition gives a number of possible motives. It might be because he was called
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