"Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does...
Our present day culture insists that we are to be self made, self sufficient and independent, and self focus. These are all lies. Such a world view is not based on reality. We...
"The Cross had asked the questions; the Resurrection had answered them...The Cross had asked: 'Why does God permit evil and sin to nail Justice to a tree?' The Resurrection answered: 'That sin, having...
Now that very day two of them were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that...
We have a mission and purpose in life. This mission and purpose began when we came into existence. But it was not until we were baptized that this mission and purpose begin to...
Jesus Christ is risen! He lives! Alleluia! This is a fact of faith. But is it a fact of faith in my life? I am a new creation in faith. Am I a...
Reflections on Scripture Second Sunday of Easter Gospel A
By spiritaflame 9:41 AM Reading ReflectionsOn the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said...
He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Encountering the risen Christ forever changed the lives of the first eye witnesses. They had doubted and refused to believe in his word before his crucifixion. They abandoned...
Jesus is risen from the dead! Alleluia! This indeed is Good News that must be told! Therefore, Jesus says to the initial eye witnesses, the women, that they are to tell the Apostles...
Jesus has risen from the dead! Death has no dominion over him! Alleluia! What does his resurrection mean for me? I have been redeemed and my sins have been forgiven. Alleluia! Death has...
He is risen! Alleluia! Initially our faith is based on the eyewitness of those who encountered the risen Lord. Without this personal encounter, their faith would be based only on the words of...
He is risen! Alleluia! Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! A survey taken last year showed in the U.S one out of four Christians did not believe in Jesus' resurrection from the...
He died for our sins. He rose to give us life. May we die to our sins, so that we can rise in his new life. May the grace of the new life of...
The fifth word that Jesus cried out from the cross was, "I thirst!" After enduring so much abuse and pain, after losing so much blood, his body has dehydrated from lack of water....
Having become sin for us, Jesus experienced the real effects of sin, separation from God. This awareness becomes so interiorly intense that Jesus cries out from the depth of this anguish, "My God,...
Divine Mercy Novena Prayers Good Friday to Saturday of Easter Week First Day of the Divine Mercy Novena: Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive...
The third word uttered by Jesus on the cross was the fruit of his preaching on discipleship. Crucified with him were two criminals. Hearing the crowds taunting Jesus to come down from the...
The cross for Jesus meant separation from the meaningful relations that were integral in his life. As he emptied Himself of his divinity to take on the human nature, so on the cross...
The first words Jesus utters from his final pulpit, the cross, were "Father, forgive them for they do not know what the do." Why these words to the very people who sought his...
"The object of prayer is of secondary importance; what matters above all is one's relationship with the Father. This is what prayer does: it transforms the desire and models it according to the...
The preponderance of God's revelation is overwhelming when it comes to his desire to be with us at all times. Why would the Almighty and infinite God choose to be with us all...
"A Christian life without temptations is not Christian: it is ideological, it is gnostic, but it is not Christian”. In fact it happens that “when the Father draws people to Jesus, there is...
When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you...
What happens when Jesus is at the center of our lives as the true Lord and Savior that he is? There will be right order in our lives, first things will be first....
Information: Women's April Mass Saturday, April 8. 2017 Bishop's House 107 Albany Dr. Houma, La 8:00am Come. Bring a friend. Share in the fellowship afterwards. ...
It is a “today after which there will be no replay”, in other words, no “tomorrow”, only “today”. And “the sunset may be closer or farther off, but it is today, a today...
