Hope is the attitude that has to carry all of us through life. We either live a life of hope or we live lives that are hopeless, that is, we live lives of despair, of unhappiness. Our First Reading today, from the Book of Wisdom, tells us that we create our own unhappiness by…
You’re in a veritable hurricane of difficulty, and all you can see of Jesus is that He’s asleep. You want to scream, “Jesus, don’t You care?” However, we know Jesus cares for us. Indeed He neither slumbers nor sleeps and is our guardian at all times. Since Jesus never slumbers on the job of guarding…
Christ’s favorite topic, it could be argued, was “the Kingdom of God.” His first public sermon began with “The Kingdom of God is at hand,” and from then on he kept talking about it, as in today’s Gospel. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be a King, and if there is a King,…
Last Sunday we celebrated the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity wherein we see Christ as the Second Person who was sent to redeem the world. This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi wherein we contemplate Christ who offered His Body and Blood on the cross for the salvation of all. At the Last…
Ancient, pre-Christian religions (except for Judaism) can be grouped into two types: world-affirming religions and world-denying religions. Each type grasped only part of the truth about God. The world-affirming religions understood that God could be encountered in the wonders of creation. The vast sky, them amazing variety of plants and animals, the rhythm of the…
“All were filled by the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues–.” Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Pentecost, also called the birthday of the Church. The feast of the Pentecost is a very ancient feast that goes back 1000 years before Christ. It was one of the three important Jewish feasts.…
When Jesus ascended into heavan, He mounted ” His throne amid shouts of joy: the Lord, amid trumpet blasts” (Ps47:6, All the angels and saints were giving Jesus a ‘prostrate ovation’ in recognition that He, the Lord of Lords and the King of kings, had accomplished the plan of salvation. The apostles shared in this…