Sundays Readings: EX 34:4B-6, 8-9, 2 COR 13:11-13, JN 3:16-18 Lecturas del Dia GRACE AND ETERNAL LIFE Moses is a man after our own hearts, for haven’t we all dealt with more than our share of stiff-necked people? Indeed, have- n’t we all gotten a little stiff-necked ourselves at times? Complaining . . . impatient…

Sundays Readings: GN 11:1-9, ROM 8:22-27, JN 7:37-39 Lecturas del Dia THE RICHNESS OF THE SPIRIT Students, and most adults recalling their school days, are familiar with the phrase “compare and contrast” that shows up from time to time on tests. Today we hear two different accounts of the giving of the Holy Spirit to…

Sundays Reading: ACTS 1:12-14, PS 27:1, 4, 7-8, 1 PT 4:13-16, JN 17:1-11A Lecturas Del Domingo “PUSHED” OUT ON MISSION There is a delightful character in the original Dr. Dolittle Tales called the “Pushmi-Pullyu.” It is a beast with two identical halves, with a head at each end. No matter which direction the beast walks,…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 8:5-8, 14-17, PS 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20, 1 PT 3:15-18, JN 14:15-21 Lecturas Del Dia THE REASON FOR OUR HOPE “What is the reason for your hope?” Imagine somebody coming up to you and asking you that question. Not “What are you hoping for?” or “What are you hoping to do?”…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 6:1-7, PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-1, 1 PT 2:4-9, JN 14:1-12 Lecturas Del Dia VOCATION Roman Catholics in the United States spend a good deal of time speaking of “vocation” and the manner in which each of us discerns our vocation for life. In today’s apostolic letter, however, Peter gives us the “cornerstone”…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 2:14A, 36-41, 23: 1-3A, 3B4, 5, 6, 1 PT 2:20B-25, JN 10:1-10 Lecturas del Dia IN NEED OF A SHEPHERD For a while it was very fashionable to own pigs as pets. The publicity surrounding these creatures informed us that they were contrary to their popular image very clean animals, and also…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 2:14, 22-33, PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11, 1 PT 1:17-21, LK 24:13-35 Lecturas del Dia GOD’S PLAN Saint Peter speaks to us twice today. In the first reading, we hear an excerpt from his sermon on Pentecost; in the second, part of his first letter. Once a frightened, uneducated fisherman who…

Sunday’s Readings: Acts 2:42-47; Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 Lecturas del Dia Get Real!Those of us who flatter ourselves that we have a “realistic” view of the world may listen to the first reading today and say, “Get real!” when we hear Luke’s account of the early, Elysian days of the Christian…

Sundays Readings: ACTS 10:34A, 37-43, COL 3:1-4, CF. 1 COR 5:7B-8A, JN 20:1-9 Domingo Lecturas SEEDS OF FAITH There is a brevity, a certain terseness, in the scripture readings for Easter Sunday. Peter’s speech in Acts is built of direct, pointed sentences. Paul’s letters are based on straightforward creed- like statements. Even the Gospel story only…

Sundays Readings: MT 21:1-11, IS 50:4-7, PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24, PHIL 2:6-11, MT 26:14—27:66 OR 27:11-54 Domingo Lecturas HOSANNA!“Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest” (Matthew 21:9). With these words the Church enters the holiest of weeks, commemorating the passion,…