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by bcadmin | Jun 9, 2022 | Faith, Living with Christ, National Eucharistic Revival, News, Sacraments | 0 |
The Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States are calling for a Eucharistic Revival across the nation. This three-year initiative will have many components both local and national. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood o…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2020 | Daily Readings, JULIA DISALVO, Living with Christ, News | 0 |
My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. As a parent, I am constantly reminded of the dangers facing my children today: careless or distracted drivers; unsafe or unhealthy foods; diseases and superbugs; bullies, predators, and all manne…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2020 | Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Jesus, Living with Christ, News, Sr. Melannie Svoboda, Sr. Melannie Svoboda SND, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Last Supper, The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet | 0 |
He took a towel and tied it around his waist. (John 13:4) After my mother died we divvied up her things. One thing I wanted badly was one of her aprons. You know the kind: large bib, long strings, and at least one pocket. Now every time I don that apro…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Living with Christ, Matthew 26:14-25, Melanie Rigney, News, Preparations for the Passover, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Betrayal by Judas, The Betrayer | 0 |
‘Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.’ Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, ‘Surely it is not I, Rabbi?’ (Matthew 26:24-25). Two awed apostles, two different endings. …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2020 | Announcement of Judas’s Betrayal, Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, John 13:21-33 and 36-38, Judas Iscariot, Living with Christ, News, Peter’s Denial Predicted, Sr. Kathryn James Hermes FSP, St. Peter, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
‘What you are going to do, do quickly.’ (John 13:27) Humans instinctively seek to preserve their lives. We marvel and give honors to persons who put their life in jeopardy to save another. Jesus steps out of the very human pattern of self-preservation,…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Holy Week, Jesus, John 12:1-11, Living with Christ, Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Anointing at Bethany | 0 |
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair. (John 12:3) Many years ago, I remember passing a florist shop and thinking, “Wouldn’t it be great to give some flowers…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Ezekiel, Jesus, John 11:45-56, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Session of the Sanhedrin, Sr. Chris Koellhoffer IHM, ST. ÓSCAR ROMERO, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will multiply them and put my sanctuary among them forever. (Ezekiel 37:26) On the floor at the rear of a church in San Salvador is a plaque memorializing an ev…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | Holy Week, Jesus, Living with Christ, Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14—27:66, Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti, News, Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
‘Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test.’ (Matthew 26:41) We are beginning the most spiritually moving and powerful week of the Church year. To me, this week has always felt different. During the rest of the year, we are fully eng…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 3, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Feast of the Dedication, Jesus, John 10:31-42, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sr. Bridget Haase OSU, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. (Psalm 18:3) Spiritual combats are a certainty of life. We skirmish with disenchantment, discouragement, and darkness; battle with our desires for prestige, popularity, and power; and may even wage war against …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Abraham, Fr. Anthony Schueller SSS, Jesus, Jesus and Abraham, John 8:51-59, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections | 0 |
Both Abraham and Jesus stepped out in faith when God called. Abraham left his homeland and everything that was familiar, trusting that God would bring him safely to his journey’s end, wherever that might be. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus surrender…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2020 | Faith, God's creation, Jesus, Living with Christ, News, Sr. Chris Koellhoffer IHM | 0 |
Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, praiseworthy and glorious forever. (Daniel 3:56) During my childhood, we lived in the countryside in a house set on top of a hill. Sometimes in the middle of the night, my father would shake us awake, wrap us…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 8:21-30, Living with Christ, Moses, News, Numbers 21:4-9, Sr. Bridget Haase OSU, Sunday Gospel Reflections, The Bronze Serpent, The Father’s Ambassador | 0 |
‘Pray to the Lord to take the serpents from us.’ (Numbers 21:7) “Sister,” blurted frustrated 10-year-old Marion during language arts, “sometimes I get so mad life kinda chokes me.” Like young Marion and the Israelites, we all have personal …
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