April 19, 2026In this week’s Gospel we have one of the most compelling of the Easter Resurrection stories, the road to Emmaus. It takes place on that first Easter Sunday. Two of Jesus’ disciples are w...  Read More

April 12, 2026This Second Sunday of Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday. Jesus Himself requested that this date be set aside as Divine Mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul II designated, during the millennial celeb...  Read More

April 5, 2026Happy Easter to all of you from the people of Our Savior and Mother of God Churches. This is the most important liturgical day of the year, even more important than Christmas, for we cele...  Read More

March 29, 2026Today we begin the most sacred and holy time in the Church’s year—Holy Week, during which we reflect on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ. The liturgies of this week are inte...  Read More

March 22, 2026A few weeks before Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection, He was called to the tiny village of Bethany, to the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Martha and Mary had sent a desperate mes...  Read More

March 15, 2026Physical blindness is used as a metaphor in the New Testament to understand the reality of spiritual blindness. In today’s Gospel we meet a man who was born blind. Jesus had taken clay, ...  Read More

March 8, 2026Lent is about preparing for baptism for our catechumens, and for those of us who are already baptized, Lent is preparation for renewing our baptisms. At all the Easter Masses, we will sta...  Read More

March 1, 2026The Gospel for this Sunday is the Transfiguration of the Lord, one of the strangest and most mysterious events in the life of Jesus and His Apostles. Jesus takes Peter, James and John (Hi...  Read More

Feb. 22, 2026Each year, the First Sunday of Lent is from one of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) and tells the story of the temptations of Jesus in the desert. This year we read from the...  Read More

Feb. 15, 2026Lent begins this Wednesday. This is a season when we prepare ourselves for the celebration of Easter and the Sacraments of Initiation. All too often, I think people look at Lent as just a...  Read More

Feb. 8, 2026In the 8th chapter of the Gospel of St. John, Jesus declares, “I am the light of the world.” But in this week’s Gospel, from the Sermon on the Mount, we hear Him proclaim to the motley cre...  Read More

Feb. 1, 2026We begin reading the Sermon on the Mount this Sunday. It will go on for several weeks but will be interrupted by the Lenten and Easter Seasons. We resume those readings after Pentecost.   ...  Read More