Month: April 2023

On the Sundays after Easter, we get to read from several passages of the Gospel that are like “snapshots” of the Resurrection: We are told of the experience of the disciples, the eleven and others, at different times, places and how they came to have an encounter with the Risen Christ. But one of the…

You may already know that the Sunday after Easter is also called “Low Sunday” as in “Low attendance Sunday“, I guess because everybody is tired after all the churchy things going on during Holy week and Easter! It’s usually the time when the priests, if they have an assistant or a seminarian, would ask them…

I had time on my own this past week and I took this opportunity to read, to binge read to be precise, a novel a friend of mine let me borrow from her. Not just a novel but a thriller actually, kind of a gruesome story to say the least, and yet, as those stories…

“Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father…“ One of the distinctive features of John’s Gospel is that we always meet a Jesus who is fully aware of what’s going on around him. Many times in this book, we see…