We Are One Family
Christopher Heffron
April 6, 2021
COVID-19 has splintered our human family. But Pope Francis has words of wisdom for us to savor.
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Sharing the Word for April 6, 2021
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
April 6, 2021
God offers us salvation in Jesus. We can’t earn it, but we can accept it from the generosity of the Father and the risen Christ.
Sharing the Word for April 5, 2021 – Easter Octave – Year 1
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
April 5, 2021
The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the apostles’ message, the keystone of the Christian faith, then and now.
Lent with St. Francis: ‘Let Us Begin Again’
Diane M. Houdek
April 4, 2021
Easter is a beginning, not an ending. And this Easter story from Thomas of Celano reminds us that for Francis, the challenge to remain true to the Gospel was one that needed to be renewed again and again.
Today’s the Day!
Daniel Imwalle
April 4, 2021
Today we will celebrate Christ’s resurrection, as rightly we should. But the cleansing effect of our Lenten sacrifices can stay with us for however long we choose to remember them.
Liminal Space
Richard Rohr, OFM
April 3, 2021
Remember, hope is not some vague belief that “all will work out well,” but biblical hope is the certainty that things finally have a victorious meaning no matter how they turn out. We learned that from Jesus, which gives us now the courage to live our lives forward from here.
Lent with St. Francis: Dead to Sin
Diane M. Houdek
April 3, 2021
As we come now to the celebration of Easter, we recall that one of the hallmarks of Francis’s life was a deep joy in the love of Christ and the glories of creation.
Lent with St. Francis: ‘By Your Holy Cross’
Diane M. Houdek
April 2, 2021
For St. Francis, meditating on the Passion was not some medieval exercise in masochism but a means of uniting himself completely to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, a way of living so thoroughly into the mystery of Christ that he was able to lead others into this mystery.
Sharing the Word for April 2, 2021
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
April 2, 2021
As the Christian community reflected on today’s passage from Isaiah, it became clear that the figure being presented was Jesus, the servant of God.
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Diane M. Houdek
April 1, 2021
Our unity is far from perfect, but today’s liturgy reminds us that if we are not always working toward that unity, then, like Judas, we are finding excuses to betray Christ’s ideals.