Prayer for Palm Sunday. Blessed be your name, oh Lord my God! As we enter this week of your Passion and Death, keep me in lockstep with you. Help me to be attentive to every word you would have me hear, every lesson you would have me learn. I want to journey with you. Amen.
In the Gospel reading, we'll hear how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Who in your life needs to be called back to life? Pray for them. If that person is you, listen for the voice. It is calling even now.
Are you in a sowing phase or a reaping phase? This week's Lenten challenge: Thank someone who once sowed faith into your life. And keep sowing, even when the harvest is unseen.
Lenten Challenge: This Lent and throughout life’s struggles, the Spirit leads you and me into the wilderness. Name one “desert” into which the Spirit has led you: perhaps grief, fear, silence, change, disappointment. Ask for the grace to go there willingly.
Today we will hear Jesus' sermon on the mount. He teaches, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 5:3) This sermon challenges us in many ways and teaches us a deeper love.
Today we joyfully celebrate Catholic Schools Week! We pray in thanksgiving for our students, families, teachers, and staff who help form disciples of Christ every school day.
Today, we'll hear how Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (Jn 1:29)
There are millions upon millions of stars in the sky on any given night. Yet for the three wise men, only one mattered. The star over Bethlehem meant something different than all the others in the universe. Instead of conveying the vastness of space, it meant something else: Emmanuel. God is with us.
We will hear how 700 years before the birth of Jesus, Isaiah prophesied to King Ahaz that a virgin would bear a son and name him Emmanuel {“God is with us”}.
Our king wears a crown of thorns, not a crown of gold. His glory is not in riches but in suffering. His law is written in his own blood, shed for the love of us. Do we understand the gift that it is, to be subject to such a king?
Jesus’ words today are filled with fire and brimstone, vivid with images of pain, suffering, confusion — and, ultimately, peace. Do we believe what he promises? Do we have the endurance to stay with him until the end?