Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. (Col 3:1-2) On this Easter Sunday let us be raised with Christ toward the hope of heaven and all its …
The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. (Is 50:7) “Death, comes for us all, even for kings he comes”. These are the words of St. Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s screenplay, A Man for …
It is now about two weeks since our Commonwealth has been operating solely on “essential services”. This unprecedented and resolute reduction in economic and personal activity for the purpose of “social distancing” was of course implemented to stop the spread of a novel strain of Corona virus. To effect this change, a nine page COVID-19 …
He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go. (Jn 11:43-44) Once again this Sunday we have a very interesting scriptural quotation to …
In a recent article in The Atlantic on-line magazine (March 11) writer Yascha Mounk provided commentary on guidelines published by the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI). Mounk explains that this document likens “the moral choices Italian doctors may face [concerning the COVID-19 virus epidemic] to the forms of wartime triage”. …
Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness… Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret… Awake O Sleeper”! (Eph 5:8-9; 11-12; 14) In one of our recent weekly parish instructions on The Sacraments narrated …
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar… Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well… A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (Jn 4:5-7) There are some conversations in the biblical narrative that will strike us as …
The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you… Abram went as the LORD directed him. (Gen 12:1; 4) Faith is trusting in what another person tells you is true, because that person is trustworthy. Every fruitful act …
Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.” At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! (Mt 4:8-10) Every …