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Happy Easter! This Sunday is the eighth day of the Octave of Easter, so it is still considered Easter Day itself. So keep celebrating. This Sunday is also known as Divine Mercy Sunday. This Sunday, April 11th is Divine Mercy Sunday. In a series of…

Christ is risen…He is risen indeed! Do you know the "Paschal Greeting”? It is what I wrote above where we greet people on Easter with “Christ is risen,” and they respond with “He is risen indeed!” This is a tradition in almost all of Christendom,…

We enter into a sacred time this week. Palm Sunday has the full name of “Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord.” What I find most powerful about Palm Sunday is not the blessing of palms to take home, which is certainly nice, but the long reading…

Excerpt from St. Augustine: Discourse on the Psalms: The Easter Alleluia Our thoughts in this present life should turn on the praise of God, because it is in praising God that we shall rejoice for ever in the life to come; and no one can be ready…

Today we begin what is typically referred to as ‘Holy Week’.  It is a time set aside by the Church for us to commemorate the events of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection.  Following are excerpts from the Ceremonial of Bishops, 1984, regarding these…

I invite you to come to the Sacrament of Reconciliation for Lent. This is the last week of Lent before Holy Week so you can’t procrastinate any more if you want to go to confession before the Sacred Triduum and Easter. We have lots of options this…

We are now here at the last ‘regular’ Sunday of Lent. Next week begins Holy Week with the celebration of Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil, and Easter Sunday. Our opening song each and every week…

This Sunday is known as Laetare Sunday. The entrance antiphon for this Sunday in Latin is “Laetare Jerusalem” or “Rejoice, Jerusalem”. We are halfway through Lent now, and the Church gives us this Sunday to add in a little ‘rejoicing’. The presiders…

This upcoming Friday, March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. It is the highest rank of feasts every year, and in the universal Church normally a holy day of obligation (but not in United States). In addition, this is the Year of St. Joseph. So,…

This weekend, we celebrate the First Scrutiny with the elect. Who are the elect? These are the people who are preparing to enter our community at the Easter Vigil. Some have been baptized already and are the Candidates; those who are not baptized…