Homily Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity Year A Reading 2: Our faith in the Trinity is expressed in the words of St. Paul in this second reading: “The grace of the...
"Reaching out to others is another Christian sign. Persons who describes themselves as Christian and who are unable to reach out to others, to go and meet them are not totally Christian. Being...
Feast of the Holy Trinity AFor God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. · This...
Do I trust God as much as God desires and deserves? He wants all of me, not because he needs me. He wants all of me for my sake. For in him alone...
What was special about Pentecost? The Apostles, Mary and the early community of believers were called not only to be disciples, believing in Jesus, but witnesses, proclaiming him to others. When they experienced...
The Spirit changes those in whom he comes to dwell; he so transforms them that they begin to live a completely new kind of life. "The change that the Spirit brings is different. It...
I invite you to join me Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 6:30pm CDT for the third talk on the Holy Spirit The link is listed. Feel free to share with others.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83294704732?pwd=TTIzZ0ZzM2U0MFJMWENJT1JFOHpXZz09Meeting ID:...
Homily Solemnity of Pentecost Year A Reading 1: Something has happened to the disciples prior to the coming of the Holy Spirit. Their relationship with Jesus had changed. The initial encounter with...
There is a story about a man who lost his wife, leaving him to be both mother and father to a six-year-old son. After her funeral, father and son came home, both feeling...
Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-11(Because we already reflected on the first part of today’s Gospel on the Second Sunday of Easter, we will focus on the First Reading instead.)When the time for Pentecost was...
"Simple in himself, the Spirit is manifold in his mighty works. The whole of his being is present to each individual; the whole of his being is present everywhere. Though shared in by...
If you were not able to participate in the first two Zoom teaching on the Holy Spirit, here are the links to them to view at your leisure.Talk 1 https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/sh are/6sMGOu9D_Ma7ZyY7UeaXYqHfi6 V53q2kdcehnvDJczR2ltNxfDaCofH8 tK8jXpKJ.9Na1q2W2iEHQ1Ehk Passcode: X$^3o9.bTalk...
"The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life. This is a new kind of water, a living, leaping water, welling...
John the Baptist identified the Messiah as the one who would baptize with fire and the Holy Spirit. On the Day of Pentecost tongues of fire were seen descending on all present. They...
Pope Francis’s Novena to the Holy Spirit Day 1 Holy Spirit, we offer ourselves to you. Give us grace to say to you always and everywhere, “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.”...
“We cannot come to a conclusion about the state of our soul from its suffering or its rejoicing…Consolation indicates, certainly, that the soul has taken a step in the spiritual life, but desolation...
I invite you to watch the second talk on the Holy Spirit as we prepare for the celebration of Pentecost. Come, Holy Spirit! by Bishop Sam JacobsTime: May 17, 2023 6:30 pm CDTJoin...
Homily Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord Reading 1: The Ascension of our Lord in his glorified humanity to sit at the right hand of the Father is the transitional moment...
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.” ...
The Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord Gospel AThe eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. · In Mathew’s theology, Jesus began his public ministry in...
The Holy Spirit is with us, in us and upon us. He also speaks to us, in us and through us. It is through the Holy Spirit that we come to a deeper...
By God's grace we have been baptized in water, saved by the death and resurrection of Jesus. By God's design we have been confirmed, baptized in the Holy Spirit as witnesses of Jesus...
"A Christian life - or a person who calls himself or herself a Christian - that does not leave space for the Spirit and does not allow the Spirit to go forward is...
Pope Benedict once told young people gathered for World Youth Day, “It is important that each one of us know the [Holy] Spirit, establish a relationship with him, and allow ourselves to be...
Homily Sixth Sunday of Easter Year A Reading 1: During these days between Easter and Pentecost we have been focusing first on the encounter with the Risen Lord by the Apostles and...
1 Thessalonians 1:6: "And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the holy Spirit…" Pope Francis has said: “This joy, this...
In 1 Corinthians 6:19, Paul says that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. When St. Augustine says that God is ‘nearer to us’ than our ‘inmost,’ it seems that the Holy...
Information: I would like to invite you to participate in a three-part Zoom teaching on the Holy Spirit in preparation for Pentecost. The dates are May 11, 18 and 25 at 6:30pm CDT...
The Holy Spirit is known as the Spirit of love. The Father's of the Church speak of him as the "kiss" of the Father for the Son. When Jesus is baptized, the Father confirmed the Son's mission as Messiah and again "kissed" him by pouring out the Spirit upon him. At the day of the resurrection, Jesus appeared to the Apostles and breathed on them, "kissed" them and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit." On the day of our baptism, God breathed his Holy Spirit upon us, he "kissed" us with his love, the Spirit of love. On the day of our Confirmation, again the Father "kissed us" by giving us a fresh outpouring of his Spirit of love, so that in the power of the Spirit we may be witnesses of God's love to others. In all this, we have seen the love of the Father. Love needs to be responded to. How are we responding to the "kiss" of the Father in our daily life? Jesus gave us the answer. "As I have loved you, so you must keep my commandments and love one another." Simple and hard. Love comes natural to us. But love requires a dying to self and being for the other.
"But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth." (John 16:13) Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life". Putting the two together, we...
In 1 Thessalonians Paul writes: "Do not quench the Spirit." Rather, he says to "test the Spirit", in other words to discern whether this is of God or not. We have all been...
Homily Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Reading 1: The first five chapters of Acts reflect the ideal community. Everyone was of one mind and heart. It was like the honeymoon phase...
"True prayer is something that must be a response to God. What I mean is that we can 'say prayers' if we like, and this is good. We can initiate 'prayers.' But there...
Fifth Sunday of Easter Gospel A"Do not let your hearts be troubled. · What has Jesus said that could cause them to be disturbed? He has already talked about one of the twelve betraying...
Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit will be with us, in us and upon us. He is with us as our Advocate and our teacher. He speaks to us in the Scriptures,...
When a room is in darkness, we find the switch and turn it on. The room is ablaze in light. So it it is in our life. If we do not turn on...
