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Pentecost: Today We Receive the Holy Spirit The Doors Were Locked: What is it that makes a disciple of Christ stop cold in the path of conversion and commitment? Cloaked underneath our spiritual inertia and lack of zeal are not…

Feast of the Solemnity of the Ascension Jesus showed himself to the Eleven, “Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he who does not believe…

6th Sunday of Easter John 15:9-17 I read this story of a soldier in the first World War, who asked his commanding officer if he could go out into the “No Man’s Land” between the trenches to bring in one…

5th Sunday of Easter John 15:1-8 John 15:2. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. In today’s Gospel, Jesus uses the…

4th Sunday of Easter John 10:11-18 The good shepherd discourse, or at least the idea of Jesus as the good shepherd, is one of John’s especially memorable moments that tend to be remembered out of context. As our passage for…

3rd Sunday of Easter Luke 24:35-48 Today’s Gospel records another of the appearances of the Risen Lord on that first Easter Sunday. Again, we have disciples struggling to come to terms with the events of recent days. They have seen…

Divine Mercy Sunday Jn 20:19-31 We call St. Thomas the Apostle “doubting Thomas”; we may be off the mark in doing so. Jesus did not ask the other apostles to believe in his resurrection without showing them the wounds in…

Easter Sunday John 20:1-9 HE IS RISEN! This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad. Jesus is risen, never to die again. After the anguish of the last few days, it is the…