9 April 2025
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Today’s first reading always leaves the lector with no little confusion on how to pronounce the names ...
8 April 2025
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent In today’s gospel, John states the following: Because of the way he spoke, many followed him. There are many ...
7 April 2025
Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent The lengthy first reading tells the story of Susana whose reputation was being comprised two degenerate men ...
6 April 2025
Fifth Sunday of Lent In the early church, the weeks prior to easter provided the time of catechesis for those who would be entering the church. ...
5 April 2025
Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent In his Commencement Address at Harvard University on June 8, 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn raised the issue ...
4 April 2025
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent In my early years as a Jesuit priest, I served a small Catholic community. Despite the challenges, it was a ...
3 April 2025
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent In his encyclical letter Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis wrote, "The history of Israel also shows us the ...
2 April 2025
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Once, I encountered a Catholic group that decided to hold their annual summer picnic in the park on Sunday ...
1 April 2025
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent A Gentleman in Moscow is a novel by Amor Towles about a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a ...
31 March 2025
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent Recently, a secular academic friend sent me his newly published book. In it, he wrote, "tightly knit ...