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In the United States, the Solemnity of Ascension is celebrated today. The opening prayer for Ascension puts into words the deepest meaning of this feast: … the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow…
It’s Mothers Day, and so how wonderfully coincidental that our Gospel from John is about love. John’s Gospel is a love Gospel. A couple weeks ago we had a quotable passage from John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who…
When Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, who is searching for Jesus’ body at the tomb (John 20:17), Jesus tells her, “don’t cling to me.” That is, she cannot find him anymore in his Jesus of Nazareth body. Instead she is directed to go to the gathered community where she will…
There will be many, many people who won’t be receptive to our Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Easter precisely because of what Luke’s Jesus is talking about in it: bad shepherds. We all know people, some in our families, who have walked away because of what a priest, or…
Our third Sunday of Easter has another Gospel account of a resurrection appearance; just like last week when Thomas touched the wounds on Jesus’ risen body, this account also features those wounds. The “eleven and their companions” at first believe they are seeing a ghost when Jesus appears suddenly in…
One of the Sisters I live with has taken to exclaiming each morning as she leaves the house: “Oh, the golden daffodils!” They are there every spring, but it seems this year they are getting more notice. Perhaps it is because of the long year of the pandemic where nothing…
“… Kindle the faith of the people you have made your own … that all may grasp and rightly understand …” These words are from the opening prayer of Mass on this Sunday after Easter. The Gospel is the episode where the Apostle Thomas, unwilling to believe the other disciples…
I love 1 Cor 5:6-8, one of the selections for the second reading of Easter day Mass. It is all about feasting. Yum! It is about yeast leavening dough — an image of how the kingdom grows, slowly, but inexorably, but also an image of how we gradually grow in…
Each Holy Week we hear two accounts of the Passion of the Lord. On Good Friday we hear the passion account from the Gospel of John. On Palm Sunday we hear the passion account from the year’s lectionary cycle, this year the Gospel of Mark. We all know the spiritual,…
“Glory” is a visible manifestation of God’s presence revealed to us. In today’s Gospel when Jesus prays, “Father, glorify your name,” a voice from heaven thunders: “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The context is Jesus’ impending passion, and Jesus drives the lesson home by telling those…