Month: May 2024

June 1-2: Preparing to Celebrate Sunday’s Mass
This weekend’s Feast of Corpus Christi is as much about hunger as it is about food. Around the Table of the Lord, we are always fed by Jesus’ self-sacrifice, but do we appreciate the longing we have in our hearts …

1-2 de junio: Preparándonos para Celebrar la Misa Dominical
La Fiesta del domingo que viene (Corpus Christi) nos va a recordar que la Eucaristía es “una comida.” No es indiferente el signo humano que Cristo y la Iglesia han elegido como base de este Sacramento: aquí es comer pan …

May 31: The Feast of the Visitation / La Fiesta de la Visitación
On the Church calendar, this is the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The story of the Visitation is told in Luke 1, 39-56. We are happy to offer today this thought-provoking reflection:
“Two women meet, cousins …

May 30: A Day of Prayer
Again this year, as dozens of our young children were preparing for First Communion, we tried to be careful about the language we used around them. We regularly tried to insist that they not think about Holy Communion as something …

May 29: Pope St. Paul VI
Elected in 1963, after the death of St. John XXIII, amid intense debates among bishops at the Second Vatican Council, Pope St. Paul VI inherited the difficult task of seeing the Second Vatican Council through to its conclusion in 1965. …

May 28: Thought for the Day
In the 12th century, St. Bernard of Clairvaux said: “God is not loved without reward, even though God should be loved without thought of reward. True charity cannot be empty, but it does not seek profit, ‘for it does …

May 27: Memorial Day / La Conmemoración de los Caídos
What we remember—and honor—on Memorial Day is heroic sacrifice. We acknowledge those who nobly gave of themselves, even unto death, for a purpose they believed was greater than themselves.
Since the days just following the end of the Civil War,…

May 25-26: The Day of the Lord
The Holy Trinity, whose Feast we celebrate today, is beyond the reach of time and the grasp of human reasoning. Clearly, it is a central mystery of our faith. We can only fumble in the dark in search of glimmers …

25-26 de mayo: El Día del Señor
Con demasiada frecuencia mucha gente considera a Dios como un Dios lejano, muy distante, y difuso, un Dios al que aparentemente es difícil acercarse, pero a quien retornamos cuando todo lo demás falla. ¡Ojalá fuéramos más conscientes de la realidad!…

May 25: Preparing for Sunday’s Mass
In bygone times, practically everybody agreed about the existence of God. In those days, religious divisions came from conflicting beliefs about God, rather than any conflict between theism and atheism, or believers and unbelievers. This is not the case …