Pentecost Sunday Scripture: Acts 2:1-111 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Romans 8:8-17John 20:19-23 or John 14:15-16, 23b-26 Reflection: Today, the Church celebrates Pentecost Sunday. We mark the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, which begins the proclamation of the…
Scripture: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31John 21:20-25 Reflection: There are also many other things that Jesus did,but if these were to be described individually,I do not think the whole world would contain the booksthat would be written. -John 21:25 One of the…
Scripture: Acts 25:13-21John 21:15-19 Reflection: Recently, I spoke with a man who has lived his brief life in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Louisville. Murders, family and gang violence, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, prostitution, and homelessness can…
Scripture: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11John 17:20-26 Reflection: Every February, when the season of Lent begins, the word “Repent” rings in our ears. Many of us are signed with ashes on that first day, and the words, “Repent, and believe in the…
Scripture: Acts 20:17-27John 17:1-11a Reflection: In Jesus’s prayers and discourses in John’s gospel, one can hear the early Christian community blending tradition, lived experience, and theologising together into the one faith-filled act of communal discernment and writing. They express their…
Scripture: Acts 19:1-8John 16:29-33 Reflection: It was a chilly spring evening in 1958, and I processed into the church with my classmates to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. This was quite different from my First Communion two years earlier: this…
Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: The scene for today’s Gospel is the town of Bethany where Jesus gives his final words to the disciples—a reminder of the saving power of His death and resurrection and the promise of the…
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Scripture: Zephaniah 3:14-18a, or Romans 12:9-16Luke 1:39-56 Reflection: Happy Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary! In today’s passage from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:39-56), Mary, after hearing…
Scripture: Acts 18:9-18John 16:20-23 Reflection: Farewells are rarely joyful. At best, they are bitter-sweet. Bitter because departure pains the heart. Sweet because only through the departure, a kind of letting go, actually, is it possible that something new will emerge. …
Scripture: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy. -Luke 24:53 Today is unique when it comes to the readings for the liturgy. There are three choices depending on which diocese…