If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.

4TH WEEK OF EASTER If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it. Why did Jesus wash the feet of the apostles on the night before he died? That task was reserved for slaves—and the apostles’ feet were probably no dirtier on that night than on any other. The...

The Father and I are one

SAINT ATHANASIUS, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH (MEMORIAL) The Father and I are one.  “Jesus, you have told us that you are one with your heavenly Father. This was a shocking idea to the Jews who heard you say it. But for us who live in the age of the Church, this...

I had a vision

4TH WEEK OF EASTER OR SAINT JOSEPH THE WORKER (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) I had a vision . . . It was a tense discussion as “the circumcised believers confronted” Peter about eating with Gentiles (Acts 11:2). According to custom, “eating with” equated to “agreeing with,” and...

For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink.

SAINT PETER CHANEL, PRIEST AND MARTYR (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. The sixth chapter of John’s Gospel is called the “Bread of Life Discourse” for good reason. Jesus emphasizes again and again that he is the Bread come down...

Look, there is water.

3RD WEEK OF EASTER Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?  Philip might have been worried. An angel from God told him to approach the chariot of a powerful foreign official and to begin evangelizing him. But how would Philip cut through the...

I am the bread of life.

3RD WEEK OF EASTER I am the bread of life.  Is it any wonder that Jesus promises to satisfy our hunger and thirst? Just as life withers and dies without water and food, so our souls can waste away without Jesus, the Bread of Life. Notice that Jesus doesn’t just...

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