THE MASS OF EASTER DAYActs 10:34a,37-43; Ps 118; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 COMMENTARY Seeing the signs of the resurrection“Alleluia! Christ is risen!” With joy we greet each other on this [...]

HOLY THURSDAY EVENING MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER: Ex 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 116; 1Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 GOOD FRIDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Is 52:13-53:12; Ps 31; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn [...]

The Commemoration of the Lord’s Entrance into JerusalemLk 19:28-40 At the MassIs 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 COMMENTARY The Heart of Divine Mission Palm Sunday is also called Passion [...]

Is 43:16-21; Ps 126; Phil 3:8-14; Jn 8:1-11 COMMENTARY Misera et Misericordia “The Misery and Mercy”With this fifth Sunday of Lent, we are approaching the final phase of the Lenten Journey. It is actually the [...]

Jos 5:9a,10-12; Ps 34; 2Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3,11-32 COMMENTARY The Return to the Joy of the Father “The Fourth Sunday of Lent is suffused with light, a light reflected on this ‘Laetare Sunday’ [‘Rejoice!’] by vestments [...]

Ex 3:1-8a,13-15; Ps 103; 1Cor 10:1-6,10-12; Lk 13:1-9 COMMENTARY Called to ConversionOn this Sunday we are approaching the middle of Lent and therefore also the center of the whole Lenten [...]

Gn 15:5-12,17-18; Ps 27; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28b-36 COMMENTARY Transfigured on the Way“The Gospel on the second Sunday of Lent is always the account of the Transfiguration” says theHomiletic Directory (no. 64) which further explains authoritatively: “The Transfiguration holds an [...]