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…
4th Sunday of Lent (B); March 11, 2018 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 Deacon Jim McFadden “God so loved the world that he gave us his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). These words should fill us with joy…
Third Sunday of Lent (B); March 4, 2018 Ex 20:1-17; Ps 19; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 Deacon Jim McFadden; (New) Folsom Prison The core of our faith is the Paschal Mystery, which refers to Jesus’ death and resurrection and their saving significance for us. The adjective paschal derives from the Hebrew verb pasach,…
1st Sunday of Lent (B); February 18, 2018 Gen 9:8-15 Ps 25 1 Pet 3:18-22 Mk 1:12-15 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. John the Baptist C.C. Lent is about belonging: staying connected with God, each other, and ourselves. The first readings for all the Lenten Sundays in Lectionary Cycle B…
SFHS Frosh Retreat; 2-7-18 Esther 5:1-5 Ps 95 Jn 4:5-42 Deacon Jim McFadden; St. Anthony’s C.C. Have you wondered why the source of “living water” would ask the Samaritan woman, an outsider, for a drink? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Many decades ago as a young college student, I read William…
The Cross is the Way Home 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 30, 2026 Jer 20:7-9. Ps 63. Rom 12:1-2. Mt 16:21-27 Deacon Jim McFadden After establishing Peter as the rock of his Church, Jesus then begins to speak…
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 23, 2026 Is 22:19-23. Ps 138. Rom 11:33-36. Mt 16:13-20 Deacon Jim McFadden Midway through his public ministry, Jesus ventured with his disciples to the northern reaches of the Promised Land, to the…
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A); August 16, 2026 Is 56:1,6-7. Ps 67. Rom 11:13-15,29-32. Mt 15:21-28 Deacon Jim McFadden Today’s Gospel (Mt 15:21-28) presents us with a unique example of faith in Jesus’s encounter with a Canaanite woman,…
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