The destination is set, the path has been paved, and a Guide has been sent from on high.
Read MoreThe Blessed Virgin May, mother of Jesus, sharpens the eyes of faith as she reflects the image of her Son.
Read MoreThe Ascent of Jesus to the Heavenly throne marks the completion of redemption. Man is in heaven.
Read MoreThe Church’s first novena leading to Pentecost was a time of preparation. The same holds true for us today.
Read MoreTo view the Ascension with the Eyes of Faith is to see beyond the limits of this world and the present moment.
Read MoreToday’s reflection highlights the chain of faith from the Father to the Son to the Apostles to us through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Read MoreThe Triune nature of God allows us to see the Father through the Son.
Read MoreThe sheep know the shepherd’s voice. The ears of faith are as important as the eyes of faith, if not sometimes more. Do you hear and recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd?
Read MoreThe disciples on the road to Emmaus hear the divine voice and then see with the Eyes of Faith.
Read MoreThroughout the Sundays of Easter, we will begin to uncover what it means to look with the eyes of faith.
Read MoreThe Passover is now complete. The Passion is finished. The tomb lays empty. The glory of the Lord shines forth. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, and He wants to come into your house.
Read MoreThe Office of Readings from Holy Saturday invites us to enter the tomb and see the Lord Jesus, both asleep and alive. Asleep in death but alive in completing the work of salvation.
Read MoreThere can only be one theme for this year’s Seven Last Words. Jesus speaks to us today as we are. Jesus speaks to us in this time of global pandemic. For this is His time.
Read MoreGod can bring good out of evil, just as on Good Friday the redemption of the world is accomplished through the wicked plotting of corrupt and weak men.
Read MoreWe are learning anew in these days that Adoration of the Eucharist is a necessary complement to Holy Communion. The Church needs both.
Read MoreAt the most basic level, having to live without Holy Communion reminds us not to take that ineffable gift for granted.
Read MoreThe physical wounds of the Passion are the exterior signs of the interior wages of sin. God has not forsaken us, we have forsaken Him.
Read MoreThe suffering, sweating, bleeding, thirsty body of Jesus is not an abstraction or a principle; it is a reality.
Read MoreJesus commends His spirit into the Father’s hands. The scars on the hands of Jesus, the image of the invisible Father, remind us that God’s hands too have scars.
Read MoreThe Holy Father insists, gently but firmly, that fear is not the Christian response to a pandemic. Fear must give way to faith and hope.
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