Find what you’re looking for
The life of every believer involves looking for Jesus. Deep in our hearts we know that we can never be happy, never fulfilled unless we are with him.
One can witness a storm, a fire, an earthquake from far away and see their impact. One can only hear a whisper if the Speaker is close. Elijah heard God in the simplest whisper. How would you respond to God’s voice?
Blessed James Oldo was a wealthy married man who shared the “good life” with his wife. Circumstances, however, changed his attitude and he began to see the futility of his lifestyle. He and his wife became Secular Franciscans and, upon her death, Blessed James became a priest.
We are all called to respond to the resurrection of Jesus. We either accept the wonderful thing that has happened or we write it off as a fraud of some sort.
The resurrection, life that is no longer subject to death, gives a fullness of meaning and beauty to the day-to-day nature of our existence
“For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.” The passage from the Gospel of John (Jn 20:9) at the end of the reading for this Easter Sunday. Today is a day to celebrate mystery.
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre lived a poor life in the ruins of the Colosseum. To the uneducated eye, he appeared to be a pitiable figure, but the people of Rome saw him as a saint. He was known as the beggar of Rome.
God’s time is a time of fulfillment that makes little sense to the world,
Saint Bernadette Soubirous was a poor, uneducated peasant girl who no one would believe had seen apparitions of the Blessed Mother. But Mary had appeared to her, and Lourdes has become a popular shrine of devotion to Mary, the Immaculate Conception, and of healing.
Through a series of readings from Scripture at the Easter Vigil service, we review the execution of God’s plan of salvation that started with creation and evolved in the context of the history of God’s own people–a history that included liberation from slavery and a land of promise.
