—The Second Sunday of Easter – Year C
The Second Sunday of Easter—Year C Sunday of Divine Mercy Reading I Acts 5:12-16Many signs and wonders were done among the peopleat the hands of the apostles.They were all together in Solomon’s portico.None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord,great numbers of men […]
—Weekly—Holy Week Reflections
Holy Week Reflections Holy Thursday Reflection On the evening of Holy Thursday, we celebrate the institution of the Eucharist by Jesus at the Last Supper. Many would call this the first Eucharist of the Church. I would argue that the Church was born from the side of Christ pierced by the lance on Good Friday. […]
—Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord – Year C
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord —Year C At the Procession with Palms – Gospel Luke 19:28-40Jesus proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem.As he drew near to Bethphage and Bethanyat the place called the Mount of Olives,he sent two of his disciples.He said, “Go into the village opposite you,and as you enter […]
—The Fifth Sunday of Lent – Year C
The Fifth Sunday of Lent —Year C Reading I Isaiah 43:16-21Thus says the LORD,who opens a way in the seaand a path in the mighty waters,who leads out chariots and horsemen,a powerful army,till they lie prostrate together, never to rise,snuffed out and quenched like a wick.Remember not the events of the past,the things of long […]
—The Fourth Sunday of Lent – Year C
The Fourth Sunday of Lent —Year C Reading I Joshua 5:9a, 10-12The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth of the month. On the day after […]
—The Third Sunday of Lent – Year C
The Third Sunday of Lent —Year C Reading I Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush. As […]
—The Second Sunday of Lent – Year C
The Second Sunday of Lent —Year C Reading I Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” Abram put his faith in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of […]
—The First Sunday of Lent – Year C
The First Sunday of Lent —Year C Reading I Deuteronomy 26:4-10Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean who went […]
—The Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time —Year C Reading I Sirach 27:4-7When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. The fruit of a tree shows the care […]
—The Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time —Year C Reading I 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziph with three thousand picked men of Israel, to search for David in the desert of Ziph. So David and Abishai went among Saul’s soldiers by night and found Saul […]
