If you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God’s approval. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you may follow in his footsteps. (more…)
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Homily – May 15
Sunday, May 15th, 2011The Breaking of the Bread
Sunday, May 8th, 2011Call to mind those pictures we saw on TV this past week of the devastation that took place in the State of Arkansas and other Southern States as over 300 tornadoes swept over the land. We saw bewildered men and women picking over what was left of their homes, trying to find something of value, something to help them remember the past. Looking at the devastation they must have wondered ’how can we start over, where do we begin?’ (more…)
Homily – May 1
Sunday, May 1st, 2011Our first reading gives us a wonderful description of the early Church. Few in number the first Christians would gather in one another’s homes to listen to the teachings of the Apostles, to support one another in fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers. Being Jewish they still went to the Temple to pray. They cared for those in need by sharing their possessions with others. These were the ideal days of Christian community. There were no mega churches of big parishes where people get lost in numbers. (more…)
Homily – Easter Vigil
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011As we heard sung during a hymn called the Exsultet this is the most blessed of all nights, a night chosen by God to see Christ rising from the dead- a night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth and we are reconciled to God- the power of this night dispels evil, washes away guilt, restores lost innocence and brings mourners joy. (more…)
Homily – April 22
Friday, April 22nd, 2011We’ve just heard the story of the passion and death of Jesus as told to us by the disciple Jesus loved, his friend John, John who stood at the cross with Mary.
It is important for us to hear this gospel as a love story, for that is what it is, for all its brutality, it is a love story. As the letter to the Romans reminds us: “you could hardly find anyone ready to die even for someone upright; though it is just possible that for a really good person someone might be willing to die. So it is proof of God’s love for us that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.” (more…)
Founded by St. Paul of the Cross, every Passionist takes a special vow to spend his or her energies in promoting remembrance of the sufferings of Jesus, the memory of the Cross, and reflection of the meaning of the Cross for the world.
