The first reaction of the disciples who saw the risen Christ in today’s Gospel was being startled and terrified. Even with the announcement from the disciples who encountered the risen Lord on the...
In today’s Gospel we have the well-known story of Jesus’ appearance on the road to Emmaus. Luke tells us that the disciples came to recognize Jesus “in the breaking of the bread.” This phrase was...
Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus expecting only death. She went full of overpowering grief and sadness. All of her hopes about a savior and messiah were destroyed by death. She arrives at...
Today’s gospel from St. Matthew is familiar to all readers: Jesus has been crucified, died, and laid within a tomb guarded by soldiers and watched by Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary.” The...
This was the pontiff who took the name “Francis” in homage to Catholicism’s most iconic and beloved saint, the “little poor man” of Assisi; the pope who rejected the marble and gold of the Papal...
Today is known as “spy Wednesday” and we see Judas setting up Jesus’ arrest with the religious leaders. There are hundreds of theories about why Judas betrayed Jesus. The Gospel simply says he was a...
The refrain from today’s psalm is “I will sing of your salvation.” Will you? If you are the average Catholic your answer might be “yes” but I wonder what you answer would be if the question was...
In today’s Gospel Mary performs a loving and prophetic action. “Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil…and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair.” Her actions provoked...
Life is full of difficulties and rarely goes as we plan or as we want. This can produce in us a lot of different attitudes: despair, anger, sadness, dullness, insensibility, apathy, restlessness, or...
In today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims his divinity by speaking like God. In the book of Exodus God reveals himself to Moses with the following words: “I am who I am…This is what you will tell the...
