Month: April 2024

The Church celebrates today the feastday of St. Catherine of Siena. She was a third-order Dominican, peacemaker, and counselor to Popes. She stood out as a beacon of hope in an otherwise dark time in the Church’s history. She singlehandedly …

Jesus’ teaching on the vine, the vine grower, and the branches (John 15, 1-8) is His encouragement to all disciples to “remain” in Him, “stay” with Him, and to never let themselves be separated from Him. His teaching is a …

Dios es el viñador que cuida su vid y la poda de manera que no le falte nada. (Juan 15, 1-8) Nosotros somos los sarmientos, a través de los cuales Jesús produce frutos. Es decir, Jesús no tiene hoy día …

De manera única, celebramos en la Pascua que Dios habita en nosotros, pero habría que decir más bien: nosotros habitamos en Dios. En Él vivimos, nos movemos, y existimos. Es lo que Jesús formula con la comparación de la vid …

The familiar teaching of Jesus about “the vine and the branches” (John 15, 1-8) is taken from the Last Supper discourse. Jesus uses an Old Testament image of the vine and branches, very familiar to His disciples, to help them …

Today we celebrate the Feastday of the Gospel writer St. Mark, who wrote the earliest of our four Gospels. Testimonies from the early Church describe St. Mark as an assistant to St. Peter. His help probably included translating St. …

Throughout the Easter season, the first readings at Mass (on Sundays and weekdays alike) are taken from the Acts of the Apostles. Practically this makes sense since Acts recounts the events following Jesus’ death and Resurrection. But there is also …

From early on in the Acts of the Apostles, St. Peter is shown to have great courage, pointing the way forward for the Church. That courage was certainly not there for St. Peter, at least not fully, through much of …

By his own admission, St. Luke was Divinely inspired to write his Gospel for this reason: “Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from …

A Prayer for Good Shepherd Sunday: “O God, you never cease to call your people, even those far away, for it is your will that all be drawn into one fold. Attune our ears to the voice of your Son,  …