ACTS OF APOSTLES – One Bread, One Body, Jun 7, 2014

Pentecost Novena – Day 9 Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 | Psalm 11:4-5, 7 | John 21:20-25 “Your business is to follow Me.” —John 21:22 Today, on the last day of our novena to the Holy Spirit and the next to last day of the Easter season, we read the last words of the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of John . May today be the last time we refuse to act on God’s …

LOVE-PENTECOST – One Bread, One Body, Jun 6, 2014

St. Norbert, Pentecost Novena – Day 8 Acts 25:13-21 | Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20 | John 21:15-19 “A third time Jesus asked him, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love Me?’ ” —John 21:17 As we draw near to the conclusion of the Pentecost Novena and to the celebration of Pentecost in this year of the Great Jubilee, Jesus simply and repeatedly asks us: “Do you love Me?” We have come to Jesus; we pray; we go to Mass. Of course, we …

THE GIFT OF TEARS – One Bread, One Body, Jun 4, 2014

Pentecost Novena – Day 6 Acts 20:28-38 | Psalm 68:29-30, 33-36 | John 17:11-19 “They began to weep without restraint.” —Acts 20:37 If you receive the Holy Spirit in this Pentecost novena, you will probably feel both more joyful and more sorrowful than ever before. St. Paul, in his life in the Spirit, proclaimed and commanded: “Rejoice in the Lord always! I say it again.

GETTING INTO TROUBLE – One Bread, One Body, Jun 3, 2014

St. Charles Lwanga & Companions, Pentecost Novena – Day 5 Acts 20:17-27 | Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21 | John 17:1-11 “The Holy Spirit has been warning me from city to city that chains and hardships await me.” —Acts 20:23 The Holy Spirit repeatedly warned St