May 11 – Easter Season- New life always

May 11 – Easter Season- New life always

Do you love Jesus?  The disciples make a big splash and eat breakfast with the risen Jesus. Wading in the water (remembering baptism) and eating with Jesus (celebrating holy communion) is our weekly encounter with the risen Christ. Jesus asks us again and again: Do...
May 11 – Easter Season- New life always

May 4 – 2nd Easter – It is the Lord

Do you love Jesus?  The disciples make a big splash and eat breakfast with the risen Jesus. Wading in the water (remembering baptism) and eating with Jesus (celebrating holy communion) is our weekly encounter with the risen Christ. Jesus asks us again and again: Do...
May 11 – Easter Season- New life always

April 27 – 2nd Easter – It’s hard to believe

Looking for signs to believe In spite of all we have heard and all we have seen, it is often hard to believe. Because it is hard to believe, we will invest ourselves in the Easter mystery for fifty days (a week of weeks). Because it is hard to believe, John the...
April 20 – EASTER – The Way of New Life

April 20 – EASTER – The Way of New Life

Living the Mystery of the Resurrected Christ  “The last enemy to be destroyed is death,” Paul writes. Today Christ is risen, and we gather together with astonishment and joy. Christ is risen, and we have been set free from the bonds of death. Christ is risen, and we...
April 13 – Jesus, as Humble King, Journeys to the Cross

April 13 – Jesus, as Humble King, Journeys to the Cross

Rejoice that we are made new through Christ Today we follow Christ from triumphal entry to the cross, each waypoint of the journey marked by Jesus’ compassion for those who would betray, mock, accuse, or do violence to him. Though persecuted and beaten, Jesus the Son...
April 6 – Preparing for Change

April 6 – Preparing for Change

Rejoice that we are made new through Christ Our God makes all things new. In the first reading God promises it. In the gospel Mary anticipates it, anointing Jesus’ feet with costly perfume in preparation for the day of his burial. In the second reading Paul recalls...