The Sunday that is seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Day is the Feast of Pentecost.  Pentecost is the is the day on which we remember the story given to us in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. The story goes:– 40 days after the resurrection (which we celebrate at Easter) Jesus ascends  Read more …

The Great Sharing Pentecost is not just another Sunday. It is a celebration quite equal to Christmas and to Easter itself.  It is the official sending of the Holy Spirit into men and women.  This is the moment we have been hearing Jesus talk about for weeks in the gospels.  He has been telling us  Read more …

The Waiting Room When thinking in this weekly reflection, I was immediately drawn to the space between Ascension and Pentecost, two momentous events of our liturgical season.  There’s a trough, a low space, between Christ’s ascending and the Holy Spirit’s descending.  This is a space of holy waiting, explicitly commanded by Christ in his last  Read more …

We live with a deep secret that sometimes we know, and then not.  That can be very helpful in understanding our faith.  One of the reasons why we struggle with faith is that God’s presence inside us and in our world is rarely dramatic, overwhelming, sensational, something impossible to ignore.  God doesn’t work like that.   Read more …

The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin verb rogare, meaning “to ask”, which reflects the beseeching of God for the appeasement of his anger and for protection from calamities . “Rogation” means “asking”, which is a theme particularly prominent in the Gospel text for this Sunday (St. John 16:23-33).  We call this Sunday “Rogation Sunday”  Read more …

Motherhood, an Awesome Gift from God Today our nation takes an opportunity to celebrate our mothers.  A mother shares in the creative work of God.  God infuses into us, in the womb of our mother, our soul.  The two, God and our mother, are sharing in creation.  They are renewing the face of the earth,  Read more …

Would the disciples have accomplished anything without the Holy Spirit?  No.  Will we? That question needs to ring continually in our ears because we Christians are usually highly motivated self-starters.  If we weren’t, we probably wouldn’t have gotten past all the obstacles there are to involvement in evangelism.  Because we’re highly motivated we look ahead.  We  Read more …

Facing the Unknown The disciples are anxious and fearful because Jesus said that it is expedient that He goes back to the father. They are worried about their “unknown” future without Him.  Facing and dealing with the unknown is a reality we all struggle with on a daily basis: There are known unknowns, that is  Read more …

COVID 19 will be remembered by our generation as the plague that, not only killed so many of our loved ones prohibiting us to visit them, say goodbyes, celebrate funerals and burials, but also as the pandemic that  foreclosed churches sending worshipers empty handed into solitary confinement. In an effort to maintain spiritual unity among  Read more …

Judas and Peter The readings this season describe the meeting between Jesus and his apostles after the resurrection. In the previous life, before His death, they abandoned Him, some even betrayed him. Judas “sold Him” to the Pharisees and chiefs priests, Peter betrayed Him three times. In his betrayal of Jesus, Peter is no different  Read more …