LIGHT ON YOUR FEET – One Bread, One Body, Jun 10, 2014
1 Kings 17:7-16 | Psalm 4:2-5, 7-8 | Matthew 5:13-16 “Men do not light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket. They set it on a stand where it gives light to all in the house.
A PROPHETIC LIFESTYLE – One Bread, One Body, Jun 9, 2014
St. Ephrem 1 Kings 17:1-6 | Psalm 121:1-8 | Matthew 5:1-12 “They persecuted the prophets before you in the very same way.” —Matthew 5:12 Elijah prophesied: “During these years there shall be no” rain in Israel “except at my word” (1 Kgs 17:1). This prophecy turned Israel’s economy upside down
DOCILE OR NOT? – One Bread, One Body, Jun 8, 2014
Pentecost Acts 2:1-11 | 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 | Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34 | John 20:19-23 “Then He breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ ” —John 20:22 Most of us reading this reflection are baptized and confirmed Catholics. We went to Mass today and possibly have been praying the Pentecost novena for the past nine days in imitation of the very first Novena ever prayed (see Acts 1:4; 2:1).
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 …