Today is the second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday. “Three times in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises us the gift of peace,” says Father Jerry, “This peace that the risen Jesus gives obviously it is not freedom from day-to-day worries or pain. No, the peace of the risen Jesus is an ongoing attitude of […]
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Saturday within the Octave of Easter
Today in Mark’s Gospel, we have the great commissioning of Jesus’ followers. At the very end of Mark’s Gospel, our active lives as disciples of Christ are starting to begin. Commission, or co-mission, like the word cooperate. Commission is a “together thing.” Even the most clueless of Jesus’ disciples now get it. Jesus has started […]
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Jesus is “the stone rejected by the builders,” and He “has become the cornerstone,” is today’s responsorial psalm. Father Jerry encourages us in today’s homily to look for that stone of patience, and to cast away that stone of selfishness. “Today, find the stone of gratitude and make it the cornerstone of a bridge,” he […]
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This morning Father Jerry briefly explains the meaning behind “The Octave” of Easter. He reads from the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus stands before the group of terrified disciples and says, “Peace be with you.” They think it must surely be a ghost, but Jesus says, “Look at my hands and my feet, that it […]
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In today’s homily, Father Jerry shares one rule that has kept two friends of his married for nearly 50 years. You might be surprised to learn what the husband and wife do while they argue with each other. But “it works,” Father says. “Open our hearts and unclench our hands o God,” Father Jerry prays, […]
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