Each day, I reflect upon a word or phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer (Easter Vigil). Thus says the LORD: “All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and…

If interested, the following homily was delivered at our Good Friday liturgy BACK IN 2024: Each year in the reading of the Passion, we hear Peter deny Jesus three times before the cock crows, just as Jesus had predicted he would do. This may prompt us to say, “I can’t believe he did that!” After…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer (Holy Thursday). “If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that…

Each day I reflect on a specific word or phrase from the readings of the day. I encourage you to reflect on this word or phrase and incorporate it in your prayers today. Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, “Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer (Monday of Holy Week). I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the…

I will be preaching a brief homily at the Palm Sunday Masses today. Here are the notes for that homily: As part of the Palm Sunday celebration, we heard two gospels – one read prior to the procession and one just now as part of the Liturgy of the Word. The two gospels open up…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. No longer shall they defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all their transgressions. I will deliver them from all their…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. “But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.” (Jeremiah 20:10-13) THE…

Each day, I reflect upon a word or a phrase inspired by the readings of the day. I encourage you to do the same and perhaps incorporate that word or phrase into your daily prayer. Today’s Verse Before the Gospel includes this familiar line from Psalm 95: If today you hear his voice, harden not your…