Daily Reflections
Often at eulogies, we hear families and friends express how lovely their beloved ones had been before passing on. They share those experiences as legacies they remember about the deceased, and that would always be evergreen in their memory. The peculiar qualities, characteristics, and good deeds the person is known…
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When Jesus says, “It is finished” (John 19:30), he speaks the truth in a qualified manner. The suffering aspect of Christ’s atoning sacrifice was completed through his Passion and death, and yet, to show the world he had definitively defeated sin, death, and the devil, Jesus needed to rise from…
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Today’s readings remind us of the need for reminders. Saint Paul summarizes the kerygma in his letter to the Corinthians: Christ suffered and died for our sins, rose from the dead, purchasing our salvation and freeing us from the clutches of Satan. He reminds us to hold fast to this…
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Everything begins and ends with love. It all comes down to this. I recently read a short story by an author I enjoy very much, What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy. While this is a work of fiction, Tolstoy has some interesting points and left me thinking about them…
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The family is the building block of society. In today’s Gospel, Jesus makes a plug for the family. He enters the city of Nain and encounters a mother carrying out her son’s burial. The scene also chooses to give the reader another detail: the mother is a widow. But why?…
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The centurion from today’s Gospel could not have known that his very words were not only being recorded, but that they would have a central place in every Holy Mass celebrated throughout the centuries across the world! This centurion was not a follower of Christ; he was presumably not even…
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Dear brothers and sisters, “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). Man thinks and approbates in terms of success, glory, human honor, first places, and the like. But God’s ways are different. He stated, “My ways are not your…
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Today we observe the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Two distinct events are rolled into this special day, to make today significant for Catholics and Christians alike. Tradition says that Roman Emperor Constantine’s mother, St. Helena, discovered the true cross in Jerusalem on this date in 326. It was taken…
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