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Unless we become grains of wheat…
On the Readings for March 18, 2018, the Fifth Sunday of Lent […]
Passover
Essay
You Have the Words of Eternal Life
“I am the bread of life…For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (Jn 6:35a; […]
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Spiritual reasons for the spring cleaning tradition
Where does the term “spring cleaning” come from? If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, you might know that our pioneer ancestors spent days every spring beating soot and dust out of their carpets […]
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The feeding of the five thousand was just the beginning
Readings: • 2 Kgs 4:42-44 • Ps 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 • Eph 4:1-6 • Jn 6:1-15 “Such was the greatness of his miracle that he willed the slender supply of food not only to be […]
News Briefs
Why the date of Holy Week changes every year
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 17, 2021 / 03:18 pm (CNA).- Every year the dates of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday vary.The Catholic Church determines the date based on the fact that Christ’s death occurred near the Jewish Passover, … […]
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“What is the mark of a Christian?”
Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide to […]
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Easter Vigil: A night different from every other night
“Why is this night different from every other night?” That is the question asked by the youngest at each Passover seder. When we apply it to our own celebration, we discover that the world cannot […]
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When was the Last Supper?
There is supposedly a problem with the dating of the Last Supper. If you hadn’t heard, don’t worry. But since someone might mention it someday in that way people do when they think they’ve got […]
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Recovering the fourfold sense of Scripture in John 6
The story recounted in John 6 is both miraculous and sacrificial, two things modernity rejects but to which the Church holds fast. […]