Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday
Greg Friedman, OFM
May 12, 2020
“I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you.” —1 Corinthians 11:23
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Greg Friedman, OFM
Greg Friedman, OFM, is a Franciscan communicator working to promote the mission of the friars in the Holy Land
Sunday Soundbite for May 10, 2020
Greg Friedman, OFM
May 10, 2020
We need to know the Holy Spirit–Christ’s gift to the Church–is present to teach us what’s needed today and unite us to Christ.
Sunday Soundbite for May 3, 2020
Greg Friedman, OFM
May 3, 2020
On the Sundays of Easter the liturgy offers instruction for the newly baptized. The chosen scriptures suggest how a community rooted in Christ witnesses to the world.
Sunday Soundbite for April 19, 2020
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 19, 2020
Most of us are used to a scientific approach to the world around us. However when we hear this Gospel proclaimed we can take heart from our fellow believers who “have not seen, and yet believe.”
Sunday Soundbite for April 12, 2020
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 12, 2020
The first followers of Jesus witness that he was risen; they had experienced him alive in their midst. Today our Easter Gospel is a story of living faith in which we are participants, and to which we are now witnesses.
Lent with the Saints: Mary Magdalene
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 11, 2020
Mary Magdalene is one of the main characters in the story of Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection.
Lent with the Saints: Mary
Greg Friedman, OFM
April 10, 2020
“No mother should bear the death of her son.” I heard that sentiment expressed in my family as a teenager, when my favorite uncle died of cancer in his forties.