5th Sunday of Easter (B); April 28, 2024 Acts 9:26-41. Ps 22. 1 Jn 3:18-24. Jn 15:1-8 Deacon Jim McFadden You may be familiar with the Co-Exist bumper sticker, which horizontally lists the great religions of the world: it uses the Islamic crescent moon for ‘C’, a peace sign for the ‘O’, the Hindu Om
4th Sunday of Easter (B); April 21, 2024 Acts 4:8-12. Ps 118. 1Jn 3:1-2. Jn 10:11-18 Deacon Jim McFadden Two lovers look at one another and say without any reservation: “I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, to love and to honor you all
3rd Sunday of Easter (B); April 14, 2024 Acts 3:13-15,17-19. Ps 42. 1 Jn 2:1-5. Lk 24:35-48 Deacon Jim McFadden The Easter season offers us a spirituality of hope. If Jesus can undergo such suffering and death and rise to new life, he can do the same thing in our life—right here, right now;
2nd Sunday of Easter (Mercy Sunday); April 7, 2024 Acts 4:32-35. Ps 118. 1 Jn 5:1-6. Jn 20:19-31 Deacon Jim McFadden The seven weeks between Easter Sunday and Pentecost constitutes the Easter season. While lest well known than Advent or Lent—people will give you quizzical looks when you say “Happy Easter” well into May—the
The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night (B); 3-30-2024 8 Old Testament readings. Rom 6:3-11. Mk 16:1-7 Deacon Jim McFadden Tonight we celebrate with utter joy the Resurrection of Jesus, which confirms that Jesus is truly the Son of God, that his love for us has no limits, and that He is God
Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper (B); March 28, 2024 Ex 12:1-8,11-14. Ps 116. 1 Cor 11:23-26. Jn 13:1-5 Deacon Jim McFadden We begin the Triduum, the most sacred time of our liturgical calendar. The Gospel has the account of the Washing of the Feet and St. Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians in
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord (B) Mark 11:1-10 (Procession) Deacon Jim McFadden 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 to Jerusalem, where he will fulfill the promises of the Messianic
V domingo de Cuaresma (B); 17 de marzo de 2024 Jeremías 31:31-34. Sal 51. Heb 5:7-9. Juan 12:20-33 Diácono Jim McFadden Mientras la Cuaresma llega a su fin, la Iglesia nos da un texto extraordinario para nuestra meditación: Jeremías 31:31ss que dice: “Vienen días, dice el Señor, en que haré un nuevo pacto con la
5th Sunday of Lent (B); March 17, 2024 Jer 31:31-34. Ps 51. Heb 5:7-9. Jn 12:20-33 Deacon Jim McFadden As Lent comes to closure, the Church gives us an extraordinary text for our meditation: Jeremiah 31:31ff which reads, “The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House
Laetare/4th Sunday of Lent (B); March 10, 2024 2 Chr 36:14-16,19-23. Ps 137. Eph 2:4-10. Jn 3:14-21 Deacon Jim McFadden Today is the 4th Sunday of Lent, a.k.a. as “Laetare,” that is, “rejoice,” because the opening antiphon of the Eucharistic liturgy invites us to that joy: “Rejoice, Jerusalem—“Be joyful, all who were in mourning.”
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph; 12-28-2025 Sir 3:2-6. Ps 128. Col 3:12-21. Mt 2:13-15, 19-21 Deacon Jim McFadden On this first Sunday after Christmas, the Liturgy invites us to celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family…
Christmas (A) ; 12-25-2025 Is 52:1-7. Ps 97. Heb 1:1-6 . Jn 1:1-18 Deacon Jim McFadden Christmas celebrates God’s overwhelming desire to be united with us. Sometimes we wonder, why does he bother? He’s perfect—he doesn’t need anything since…
4th Sunday of Advent (A); December 21, 2025 Is 7:10-14. Ps 24. Rom 1:1-7. Mt 1:18-24 Deacon Jim McFadden As we enter into the 4th Sunday of Advent, let us remember that salvation history has a trajectory which comes…
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