May 2022

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Luke 1:39-56 A young girl meets an old woman. Both are pregnant. Both feel misunderstood. Mary and Elizabeth felt oppressed and isolated suddenly realize their greatness and are free to celebrate their blessing. The two of them become community. They need each other, just to be together and […]

John 16:29-33 We are all in the process of becoming what God intended us to be. If we could only live with that kind of attitude, that without our knowing, God’s providence is working his purposes out even when it is invisible to our eyes. All we need is to trust in God’s providence.

Seventh Sunday of Easter | Feast of Ascension Luke 24:46-53 The Ascension of Jesus has taken our faith out of the physical realm and placed it in a spiritual realm, believing what is seen and unseen. His going away actually became the fulfilling of his promise to be with us always until the end of

John 16:23-28 In this gospel, Jesus reminds us that we can go to God because God loves you. Jesus did not die to change God into love but to remind us that God is love. He came not because God so hated the world but because God so loved the world. The gospel today is

St. Augustine of Canterbury, Pray for us. John 16:20-23   We have all experienced a very painful moment in our life that made us wiser and stronger. We have endured a situation that we were convinced would defeat us or end badly but we survived. We took on something we knew was going to cost

St. Philip Neri, Pray for us. John 16:16-20   Some people picture Jesus as a political rebel, others as a mystic visionary, others as a talented healer, and still others as a rustic sage. Jesus is multi-faceted. He shows different sides of his truth to those who approach him in diverse ways. Each time we

St. Bede the Venerable, Pray for us John 16:12-15   The Spirit of truth, according to Jesus, is responsible for guiding the community to all truth. This means that the Spirit works through the members of the community. Being open to the guidance of the Spirit implies that we are seeking what is good for

John 16:5-11 As the Holy Spirit is active in our lives we begin to see much of the folly of our ways and actually bring judgment down on ourselves. Therefore, it is not God who judges us as much as it is we ourselves when we realize how far we have strayed from what is

John 15:26-16:4 Our witness to Jesus may not be as dramatic as that of the early martyrs who were witnessing to strangers and those outside the fold. Today we find ourselves witnessing to fellow Christians, to others within our own community, and that can be a far greater challenge.

Sixth Sunday of Easter John 14:23-29 To be a person of faith does not simply mean believing in God as creator of the universe but experiencing him as a living presence in one another who walks with us on all the roads of life. What a tremendous difference it would make in our lives if