text Sixth Sunday of Easter 2021: Honor Thy Mother! Mother’s Day dawned here on a chilly, drizzly morning, but that didn’t matter to the thousands of…
text Fifth Sunday of Easter: 2 May 2021 — The Bond of Love Today’s gospel reading is taken from Jesus’ long exhortation to his disciples at the Last Supper,…
text Fourth Sunday of Easter: Fateful Recognition After the revisions of the liturgy following the Second Vatican Council, this fourth Sunday of…
text 3rd Sunday of Easter: Recognizing Jesus We are still in the upper room this Sunday, as if the celebration of our eucharist lodged us with…
text Second Sunday of Easter 2021: The Quality of Mercy The Sunday after Easter, which is also known with greater reason as Resurrection Sunday, has even…
text Easter Day 2021: Light in a Dark Time Death’s strong bands have been broken! That good news could hardly come at a more needed time,…
text Palm Sunday: March 28 2021 It hardly needs noting that we live in vexed and troubled times, not very much different from the…
text 5th Sunday of Lent 2021: The Everlasting Covenant Today western Christians begin the last full week of Lent, which ends with Holy Thursday and the…
text 4th Sunday of Lent 2021: the Rite of Return There doesn’t seem to be much joy in today’s readings, at least not at first glance. And…
text 3rd Sunday of Lent 2021: Peace Pilgrims It has been almost 21 years since Pope John Paul II visited Egypt, Jordan, and the Holy Land, where…
text 2nd Sunday of Lent: Beloved Sons Back in 1974, as I contemplated a year at Oxford, I had planned to study under the watchful eye of…
text 1st Sunday in Lent 2021: A fresh start? It seems that no matter how many hills we climb, or how dark the night, there’s another one to deal…
text Sixth Sunday of the Year: Honor, Love, and Cherish Although today’s readings focus on disease, specifically leprosy, and more importantly, compassion…
text Fifth Sunday of the Year: AKA Sexagesima Buccaneers versus Chiefs might sound like an episode from Peter Pan – if you were born on a…
text Fourth Sunday of the Year: Caught in the Middle [This Sunday I am still in the grip of the unfortunate aftereffects of inhaling Volatile Organic…
text Third Sunday of Ordinary Time: A Tale of a Whale This morning I noted that Church documents still call this the “Third Sunday of Ordinary Time,” as…
text Second Sunday of the Year 2021: Loving Life Early this past week I happened to tune into “Morning Joe,” an early-morning news-and-commentary…
text The Baptism of the Lord 2021: Hope Kindled Some things, once seen, remain etched in memory. Even though very few of us were present and…
text The Epiphany 2021: Light in Dark Times Today’s celebration is one of the oldest in the Christian tradition. In Ireland it is traditionally…
text Feast of the Holy Family: Keeping in Touch In ages past, separated families had only letters and word of mouth for keeping in touch with their…
text 4th Sunday of Advent 2020: The Hope in Christmas For those in the Northern hemisphere lucky enough to have an unimpeded view of the western horizon…
text Doctor… Who? Joseph Epstein’s mean-spirited op-ed piece on whether Jill Biden can call herself “Doctor” ignited…
text Third Sunday of Advent: Finding Joy There’s a certain irony in calling today’s celebration “Gaudete [Rejoice!] Sunday,” its former…
text The Second Sunday of Advent: A New Way This is the darkest part of the year, at least in the northern hemisphere, but the darkness is not…
