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Reflection for the 6th Sunday of Easter, 2025
Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29 The Advocate will teach you everything Are you attending any graduations this Spring? The words graduation and commencement indicate important milestones on the path of a person’s academic maturity. At this exciting time the family and community celebrate joyfully
Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Easter, 2025
Acts 14:21-27; Psalm 145; Revelation 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35 I will praise your name forever, my King and my God We continue to rejoice in the Lord’s great kindness to His Church by giving us, Pope Leo XVI, a new “good shepherd” for His large flock! We pray
Reflection for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, 2025
Acts 5:27-32, 40b to 41; Psalm 30; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 I am going fishing God’s call to each of us is personal and eternal, like the seal of Baptism and Confirmation that enable each child to belong to Him. What is true for the highest leaders
Divine Mercy Novena: Day 4
Intention of the day: Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know Me. I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. (Diary 1216)
Divine Mercy Novena: Day 3
Intention of the day: Today Bring to Me all devout and faithful souls, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. The souls brought Me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were that drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness. (Diary 1214) Prayer
Divine Mercy Novena: Day 2
Intention of the day: Today bring to Me the souls of priests and religious, and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave Me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them, as through channels, My mercy flows out upon mankind. (Diary 1212) Prayer for the day:
Divine Mercy Novena: Day 1
Intention of the day: Today, bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me. (Diary 1210) Prayer for the day: Most Merciful Jesus,
Palm Sunday, 2025
Lk 19:28-40; Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22; Phil. 2:6-11; Luke 22:14-23:56 Blessed are you who have come in your abundant mercy! The first Gospel reading of the Palm Sunday Mass provides the metaphor for our journeying with Jesus during this last, most holy, week of Lent. We see an anonymous
Reflection for the 5th Sunday of Lent
Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11 Then the Scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman…and made her stand in the middle. Again this week, our merciful God surprises us with his overflowing goodness, shown in all the Mass readings, especially in Jesus’ mercy toward the adulterous
Laetare Sunday ~ 2025
Joshua 5:9a, 10-12; Psalm 34; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. This Laetare Sunday, or “Rejoice” Sunday, we reflect on the story of the Prodigal Son. While widely recognized, some have asked if maybe it should be referred to as
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