Today’s Scriptures turn the phrase, ‘to give as good as you get’, on its head. They inspire us not only to transform the meaning of that phrase, but they also reveal why and how our lives should be different, radically different, from the world around us.Read More

By listening to the Word of God, by sharing in Jesus sacrifice on the Cross, and by receiving his Body and Blood under the form of bread and wine, you are being joined to Christ as closely as branches are joined to the vine.Read More

By willing it, we “give God permission” to unite us to himself and one another by means of his abundant graces flowing from him to us through the Church. In a word, you and I have to decide how, when, and where we will allow the Lord to take us to himself and make us...Read More

Above all else let us take this opportunity to think back and to express our gratitude to God for having called us to share in his priesthood, for inviting us to give our lives at the service of announcing the Good News of Salvation, and beg him for the grace to continue to live out...Read More

If we have been mentored by others, let us in turn mentor others in the faith, not only by what we say but by the way we think, decide, and live, by our love for others, especially the poor, and by our readiness to give an account of our hope – with respect, gentleness, and...Read More

For like the Apostles in the reading from the Acts of Apostles, Bl. Michael McGivney bore courageous and loving witness to the Risen Lord, and not only that, he created a pathway for the laity to grow in holiness and to bear witness in their own lives to the truth and reality of the Resurrection,...Read More

Divine Mercy is the source of our newness as an Order and remains the reason why we strike a contrast to the society around us.Read More

To believe in this greatest of mysteries requires us to rely on witnesses – on Mary Magdelene, on Peter and John, all of whom we met in today’s Gospel, and on St. Paul who saw the Risen Lord seated at the right hand of the Father, and on the Apostles bearing witness to the Risen...Read More