The Solemnity of Pentecost (B); 5-20-18 Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104; 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. The meaning of the feast of Pentecost is richly complex: it’s like a multi-faceted diamond whose brilliance takes different nuances when examined from different angles. Today’s readings offer us…
Farewell Mass St. Francis H.S.; May 14, 2018 Deacon Jim McFadden Well, here we are again wrapping up another fruitful, intense, and challenging school year. As people of faith, we know it is not all our doing. As the Psalmist reminds us that If the Lord does not build the house, in…
Ascension of the Lord (B); May 12, 2018 Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Mk 16:15-20 Deacon Jim McFadden “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and to all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the Earth” (Acts…
6th Sunday of Easter (B); May 6, 2018 Acts 10 Ps 98 1 Jn 4:7-10 Jn 15:9-17 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison; SJB Today’s Gospel—John Chapter 15—brings us back to the Last Supper, which contains Jesus’ final, lengthy discourses, which give us a richly textured, sustained account of Christian spirituality. There is a…
Fifth Sunday of Easter (B); April 29, 2018 Acts 9-26:41 Ps 22 1 Jn 3:18-24 Jn 15:1-8 Deacon Jim McFadden Today’s Gospel shows us Jesus during the Last Supper, in the moment He knows that his death is close at hand. His ‘hour’ has come and this will be the last…
4th Sunday of Easter (B); April 22, 1018 Acts 4:8-12 Ps 118 1 Jn 3:1-2 Jn 10:11-18 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison, SJB Two lovers look at one another and say without any reservation: “I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I…
3rd Sunday of Easter (B); April 15, 2018 Acts 3:13-15,17-19 Ps 42 1 Jn 2:1-5 Lk 24:35-48 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. In the mid-‘80s the Australian director Peter Weir (Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show) did his first American film, a successful thriller Witness (1985), which starred Harrison…
2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)/B; 4-8-18 Acts 4:32-35 Ps 118 1 Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison; SJB The seven weeks between Easter Sunday and Pentecost constitutes the Easter season. While lest well known than Advent or Lent—people will give you strange looks when you…
The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Sunday, 2018 Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 118; Col. 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Deacon Jim McFadden Today we are celebrating the apex of the liturgical calendar: The Resurrection of the Lord is the be-all and end-all of our Christian faith. It really comes down to this: if Jesus was not raised…
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (B) Mark 11:1-10 (procession) Is 50:4-7 Ps 22 Phil 2:6-11 Mk 14:1-15:47 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison, SJB Palm Sunday is the great doorway leading into Holy Week—the week in which the Lord Jesus makes his way to the culmination of his earthly existence. He goes…
Good Shepherd Sunday (A); April 26, 2026 Acts 2:14,36-41. Ps 23. 1 Pt 2:20-25. Jn 10:1-10 Deacon Jim McFadden Today is traditionally known as Good Shepherd Sunday, which presents us one of the most beautiful images that has portrayed our…
3rd Sunday of Easter (A); April 19, 2026 Acts 2:14,22-33. Ps 16. 1 Pt 1:17-21. Lk 24:13-35 Deacon Jim McFadden Why was it so difficult for the two disciples to recognize the Risen Lord? Jesus’ death scattered his disciples and…
Divine Mercy Sunday (A); April 12, 2026 Acts 2:42-47. Ps 118. 1 Pt 1:3-9. Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden During the ‘90s, a popular, albeit off-beat television show was the X-Files, featuring agent Fox Mulder, an investigator of the…
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