Mar 31, 2025
(Ez.47:1-9,12; Ps.46:2-3,5-6,8-9; Jn.5:1-3,5-16)
“There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God,
the holy dwelling of the Most High.”
Brothers and sisters, Jesus is our living water.
In our first reading, Ezekial speaks of his heavenly vision of the river of God which runs from His holy temple. ...
Mar 30, 2025
(Is.65:17-21; Ps.30:2,4-6,11-13; Jn.4:43-54)
“You changed my mourning into dancing.”
Here in the midst of Lent we find the purpose of all our suffering, the hope to which we all are called. “At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing.” And thus does this time of penance and fasting...
Mar 29, 2025
(Jos.5:9a,10-12; Ps.34:2-7,9; 2Cor.5:17-21; Lk.15:1-3,11-32)
“Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.”
As the Israelites now realize their redemption from slavery in Egypt as they step into the Promised Land, so the prodigal son comes to his own redemption, his own release from slavery as a hired...
Mar 28, 2025
(Hos.6:1-6; Ps.51:3-4,18-21,Hos.6:6; Lk.18:9-14)
“As certain as the dawn is His coming,
and His judgment shines forth like the light of day!”
It is night. There is darkness. In this world of sin we are afflicted on account of our guilt, for our failures to love God. And so David cries out in our psalm,...
Mar 27, 2025
(Hos.14:2-10; Ps.81:6-11,14,17; Mk.12:28-34)
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!”
“There is no other than He,” and so what should we do but “love the Lord [our] God with all [our] heart, with all [our] soul, with all [our] mind, and with all [our] strength”? What promise the Lord makes...