Saturday of the Third Week of Easter – Jn 6:60-69 Today’s Gospel presents us with the rather sad conclusion of the Bread of Life discourse. Many of Christ’s disciples, His own followers, refuse to accept the teaching: yet, rather than change His words, Christ even offers His disciples the chance to walk away. It’s clear […]
Friday of the Third Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 6:52-59 In today’s Gospel, Jesus insists that His Flesh is true food, and His Blood is true drink. In fact, three times Jesus uses the phrase “eat My flesh and drink My blood.” Part of the reason the Jews are so astounded is
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter – Option 2 – Jn 6:44-51 In today’s Gospel, we’re presented with another selection from the Bread of Life discourse that we’ve been hearing throughout the week. There’s a lot that can be said, but we can focus on just one part: what it means to be taught
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter – Jn 6:35-40 Today’s first reading continues where yesterday’s ended: yesterday Stephen was martyred, and today a wider persecution breaks out. Yet, in the midst of these troubles, we see how God brings fruit from what, humanly speaking, seems terrible. In particular, God brings about conversions and the
Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist – April 25th – Mk 16:15-20 Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Mark, evangelist. Both the first reading and the Gospel are a tribute to the saint, since the Mark mentioned at the end of Saint Peter’s first letter is presumed to be Saint Mark, and the Gospel is
Monday of the Third Week of Easter – Jn 6:22-29 Today’s Gospel begins a week-long read through of the Bread of Life discourse, from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Each day we will hear a selection from that Eucharistic discourse, all of which finds its definitive fulfillment in the Paschal mystery, but today we
Third Sunday of Easter – Year A – Acts 2:14,22-33; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-11; 1 Pt 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 Dear brothers and sisters, as we make our way through the Easter season, today’s Gospel recounts for us the apparition of Jesus to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. This apparition can serve us as a beautiful
Saturday of the Second Week of Easter – Jn 6:16-21 Today’s Gospel really sets the stage for us and for the readings for next week, which will give us the Bread of Life discourse. While it’s true that yesterday’s Gospel concerned the multiplication of the loaves, here we have a very intense miracle, perhaps a
Friday of the Second Week of Easter – Option 1 – Jn 6:1-15 In the Summa Theologiae (I, q. 19, a. 1), Aquinas tells us that God’s will is always accomplished, no matter what, and, reflecting on this, he says: “Since . . . the will of God is the universal cause of all things,
Thursday of the Second Week of Easter – Option 3 – Jn 3:31-36 In today’s readings we’re given a sort of picture before and after the Resurrection, and we see that although a lot has changed, still many things remain the same. Chronologically, the Gospel passage is first. Although this week we’ve been hearing about
