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As we know, Easter isn’t just a day, it’s a whole season. The Easter season stretches all the way to the feast of Pentecost. Lent, which sometimes feels like it is stretching on forever, is actually forty days long. Easter, …
En Juan 6, Cristo Jesús habla muy claramente de sí mismo como Pan de Vida que hay que aceptar con fe, y promete dar el pan de su propia carne en la Eucaristía para la vida del mundo, para la …
When we recently celebrated the Easter Vigil Mass, the night on which four new members of the Church (and our parish) were Baptized, Confirmed, and welcomed to the Table of the Lord for the first time, we heard and …
Whenever Jesus feeds a vast crowd of people (in John 6, for example), He satisfies their bodily (or physical) hunger, but He is always “pointing to” a deeper hunger which they have: a spiritual hunger. We long to be one …
El tiempo Pascual nos está demostrando que en medio de la persecución y de los tormentos (Hechos 8, 1-8), la Palabra arraiga y se difunde, y no precisamente por méritos humanos. La persecución sufrida por los primeros cristianos en Jerusalén …
April 25th marks the Feastday of the Gospel writer St. Mark. He had a stormy beginning: he set out on a missionary journey with his uncle St. Barnabas, and St. Paul; but he quit after a while (Acts 13, …
Cada 25 de abril, la Iglesia Católica celebra la fiesta de San Marcos Evangelista, discípulo del Apóstol San Pedro, y autor del segundo Evangelio del Nuevo Testamento. Su obra fue un Evangelio escrito (principalmente) para los paganos (no-cristianos), probablemente en …
On the Third Sunday of Easter, Pope Francis recommended making an examination of conscience at the end of each day as a way to invite Jesus into the joys and struggles of daily life. “Indeed, for all of us it …
El tiempo Pascual nos recuerda (fuertemente) que el encuentro con Cristo Resucitado cambia la vida. El encuentro con Jesús Resucitado cambió la vida de aquellos dos discípulos de Emaús. (Lucas 24, 13-35) Se habían marchado de la comunidad. Caminaban tristes, …
Today’s Gospel (Luke 24, 13-35) offers a template (or model) for the Mass. At the celebration of the Mass, we “recognize” Jesus (as did the two disciples “on the way”): in our shared journey which has brought us to Mass, …
