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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Happy Birthday! The Church celebrates its beginning today on Pentecost Sunday, when the Holy Spirit filled the hearts of the faithful, sending them out to spread the Gospel, and the Church was born. In the first reading from the Acts of the…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. For some of the older members of the Church, you may remember that this Feast used to be celebrated on a Thursday and was a Holy Day of Obligation. This Feast of the Ascension falls 40 days…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
In today’s Gospel we hear Jesus telling us that He will be sending the Holy Spirit to be with us, and the ideal to love one another comes up again. We begin our masses singing, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” which speaks of the basis of Easter –…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Just a reminder for all about the 50 days of Easter – instructions that we are given at Easter:
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost are celebrated in joyful exultation as one feast day, or better as one “great Sunday”. These above all…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
By now, we’re all kind of used to the ‘Easter’ thing. The candy is gone out of the stores, no more Easter bunnies running around, the hard-boiled eggs have gone bad, the Easter lilies are dying. But, we’re still celebrating Easter in Church! The…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Today’s Gospel passage reflects on Jesus’ encounter with some of his disciples, after His death and resurrection, while at the Sea of Tiberias. Simon Peter recognizes Him while out at sea when Jesus instructs them to cast their net one more time…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Today we celebrate the Octave of Easter. That means we should celebrate this Sunday just as we celebrated Easter Sunday last weekend. The great dismissal is sung again today with a double ‘Alleluia’. We still rejoice in our Risen Lord!
All of…
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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…
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Lent is a good time for self-evaluation and looking at our life choices. One of the greatest challenges I see in pastoring today and for our mission at Prince of Peace is how complicated lives have become.
Harvard economist Juliet B. Schor, in her…
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
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. I would highly recommend that you…