Saturday, May 31, 2025 Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Zeph 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16; Lk 1:39-56 The feast of the Visitation invites us to practice humility as the overarching Christian virtue. All the principal characters in today’s Gospel, namely God, Mary, Elizabeth, and John, live out the virtue of humility in […]
Friday, May 30, 2025 Acts 18:9-18; Jn 16:20-23 Today’s Gospel is a continuation of yesterday’s text on the need for Christians to transition from sorrow to joy as a foundational Christian experience. Jesus makes use of a common Jewish metaphor – childbirth – to describe the transition from sorrow to joy in Christian life. Two
Thursday, May 29, 2025 Acts 18:1-8; Jn 16:16-20 Today’s Gospel highlights the content of Christian truth and invites us to live it out. As the chapter ascends toward the culmination of the Farewell Discourse of Jesus (John 13-17), he prepares his disciples for his departure. The phrase ‘a little while’ has been repeated seven times,
