May 24, 2013
This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Trinity. Rather than give a theological explanation of the dogma, the belief of faith that we and all Christians, Catholic and non-Catholic, hold regarding the Trinity, I want to focus on what the Trinity means to us as Church and as individuals.
To find the mystical, people have merely to go to the disciples of the Lord. To find the mystical, people have only to go to you, and to me. Jesus ....
Our Lord Jesus Christ did not pray only for the twelve disciples. He prayed for all in every age whom their exhortation would persuade to become ho....
There is a wonderful mystery of our lives that the immoral world will never understand: Saying “Yes” to Christ does not make every day a....
The New Jerusalem is in our immediate future. Those who hold out for the Lord will be citizens of “the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming dow....
The mark of Christ’s sheep is their willingness to hear and obey, just as the sign of those who are not his is their disobedience.
Everything is changed. Everything is renewed. We speak about the new life of the Lord at Easter, but perhaps we don’t really understand the p....
Thomas was not there. He doubted the other disciples’ story. He even doubted the word of the Lord, who had said He’d rise again. When he....
A large lighted candle is brought into the darkened church. Its light illuminates the church. In the same three places where the cross was unveiled....