WHOSE VOICE DO YOU RECOGNIZE AND FOLLOW?
4 th Sunday of Easter is also known as Good Shepherd Sunday and is dedicated as a World Day of Prayer for Vocation. In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us, "The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them." And "the sheep follow him because they...
FRIENDS ARE FOR EVER: PALAU’S WAY OF LIFE (LETTER 34)
Father Palau loves mixing private life with business. It is not that he makes business only with his friends; it is that everyone with whom he makes business sooner or later becomes his friends. And not only him, but all his family, relatives, friends and neighbors as...
Similar to the two disciples walking to Emmaus, there are many of us who frequently walk astray on the roads of discouragement and desillusion. We are many who got used the verb "to hope" in past tense: "we were hoping that..." It means that we don't hope anymore,...
THOMAS AND HIS MYSTERIOUS TWIN
Who is the “twin” the Gospel mentions when talking about St. Thomas Apostle? Let us see if we can find the answer!
WHY DOUBTING THOMAS MISSED THE PARTY
Surely you do not think that it was pure accident that that chosen disciple was missing; who on his return was told about the appearance and on hearing about it doubted; doubting, so that he might touch and believe by touching? It was not an accident; God arranged that it should happen. His clemency acted in this wonderful way so that through the doubting disciple touching the wounds in his Master’s body, our own wounds of incredulity might be healed.
NEW LIFE… FISHING AGAIN? RETURNING BACK TO THE OLD
Before we look at what new life looks like, I must warn you: there is always a great temptation to stay in our old life or return to it again. Even the disciples experienced this setback.
FOLLOWING JESUS INTO UNEXPECTED PLACES: A LOCKED UPPER ROOM
Jesus had been crucified. His body had been interred in a tomb close to the place called Calvary (also known as Golgotha). It had been been a grief filled Passover in Jerusalem for the disciples and family that had gathered in Jerusalem. Just days before Jesus had...
LESSONS FROM THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
How often do we find ourselves in similar stress over events in our own lives? So many of us are like these men still today. We hear the words, we read the scripture firsthand and yet… we struggle with doubt. What can we learn from the story of Jesus’ encounter with his discpiles on the road to Emmaus?
WHEN ONLY MARY MAGDALENE KNEW OF THE RESURRECTION
In those moments that happened from her encounter with Jesus to her encounter with Disciples in the Upper room, Mary Magdalene would have been the only one who had seen the risen Lord; she would have been the only one in all of history to have heard the good news; she alone was the herald of the Resurrection. Put simply, in those few minutes, she was the church.
WHO IS THE “OTHER MARY”?
Who is the mysterious “other Mary” mentioned in the Gospel as one of the first witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection?
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