HOLY SMOKES; WHY CATHOLICS USE INCENSE IN WORSHIP At Mass and other liturgical services we see priests and altar servers swinging censers, sending clouds of incense...
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, YR B Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118 1 Jn 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 THE GOOD SHEPHERD, AN EXAMPLE FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP For the last couple of weeks, our...
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER, YR B Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Ps 4 1 Jn 2:1-5; Lk 24;35-48 THE GLORIOUS SCARS OF JESUS Not many people are comfortable with scars on their bodies...
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER, YR B Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118 1 Jn 5:1-7; Jn 20:19-31 WHOSE SINS YOU FORGIVE ARE FORGIVEN…(Jn 20:23) After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to the...
EASTER SUNDAY, YR B Acts 10:34a,37-43; Ps 118 Col. 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 THE EMPTY TOMB:A GAME CHANGER Alleluia!!! Praise the Lord! The Lord is risen! This is what everything...
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT, YR B Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 THE HOUR HAS COME The gospel today recounts Jesus’ last journey to Jerusalem. He enters...
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT, YR B 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137; Eph. 5:8-14; Jn 3:14-21 THIS IS HOW GOD LOVED US Today’s Gospel reading, taken from the Gospel of John, is a...
LENTEN OBSERVANCES Lent is described as a penitential season. A time we are called to return to the Lord by acts of repentance. In this season, we are called to do away...
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT,YR B Ex 20:1-3,7-8,12-17; Ps 18 1 Cor. 1:22-25; Jn 2: 13-25 RESTORING THE CHURCH On the first Sunday of Lent, we encountered Jesus in the desert...
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Gen. 22:1-2,9-13,15-18; P116 Rom. 8:31-34; Mk 9:2-10 THE CHRISTIAN END GAME For the second Sunday of Lent the Church presents us with Mark’s...
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT, YR B Gen 9:8-15; Ps 25 1Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 BECOMING A BETTER PERSON IN THE DESERT OF LENT After the baptism of Jesus, he was driven into the...
LENT: IN IMITATION OF JESUS It is a period of preparation for Easter. This period takes forty days of prayer, fasting and penitence. This is a very important season...
