Click here for daily readings Corrupt officials pay off witnesses to an important event to keep the story quiet. The truth of the event challenges their authority, so they strive to keep it under wraps. Sound familiar? Using hush money to protect power sounds like a story that could have broken today, but this story

Click here for daily readings The significance of the empty tomb cannot be overstated. It is the foundation of our faith and the source of our hope. As Catholics, our actions would be in vain if the tomb was not empty. But it was, and this is what gives our faith its purpose and our

Click here for daily readings As we prepare to celebrate the highest feast of the liturgical year during this evening’s Easter Vigil, we joyfully proclaim: “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Cor 15:55) It is said that death is a terrible enemy, and it wounds all of us

Click here for daily readings During this Triduum, we are focused closely on our Savior’s last and most difficult days on earth. Reading St. John’s narrative of Christ’s Passion and Death, no more words are needed, and yet our hearts are overflowing with gratitude and awe at this graphic expression of the great love that

Click here for daily readings We have arrived at the Easter Triduum, the summit of the Liturgical year, when Christ’s Paschal Mystery is unfolded for us in a continuous stream of worship, from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper this evening all the way through Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. The Scripture readings for Holy

Click here for daily readings I recently told Jesus that if “x”, “y”, and “z” were true about Him, then I didn’t want Him. Those words echoed in my mind for days with an anguish deeper than the pain that caused me to utter them. How could I speak to my Lord with such hatred?

Click here for daily readings Here we are on Tuesday of Holy Week. Take a wild guess as to what happens on this day. Really? It’s National, “take a wild guess day.” Do you think the Apostles had any guesses as to what lay ahead for them?  I’ve always wondered what can be done to

Click here for daily readings For 40 days of the sacred season of Lent, we have been renewing and purifying our hearts, practicing self-denial and imitating God in his kindness by sharing with those who are in need, practicing virtue and fasting, overturning what the Preface for the First Sunday of Lent calls, “all the

Click here for daily readings Today we begin Holy Week, when we walk beside Jesus during the long and painful journey of His Passion, Death and Resurrection. Today we read the account of the Passion, and it can seem as long as this week. We don’t like to face the hard, the difficult and the