Thursday, April 17, 2025

Thursday, April 17, 2025

This reflection is based on readings from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 116 and 1Corinthians 10: 16) instructs us to respond to God through celebration: “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

  The Responsorial Psalm is the cry of a disciple who is also a teacher, but whose message is meeting with stubborn resistance and even arousing hostility. His response is: “Lord, in your great love, answer me” (Psalm 69). We do not prevail with human arguments...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Responsorial Psalm invites us to proclaim and celebrate the triumph of God’s saving truth, even when the world seems deaf to it: “I will sing of your salvation” (Psalm 71). Isaiah 49: 1-6 is an act of confidence in the face of apparent failure: “Though I thought I...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Monday, April 14, 2025

The Responsorial Psalm associates salvation with knowledge of the truth: “The Lord is my light and my salvation” (Psalm 27). To grow into the fullness of the divine life Jesus gives us, we need to grow into the fullness of his light. We need to be disciples. In Isaiah...
Conversion to a Unconditional Discipleship

Conversion to a Unconditional Discipleship

  Inventory  Do I ever grow weary of praying? Of reading Scripture or reflecting on the word of God? Do I sometimes feel it is useless, that nothing ever comes of it? Do I ever feel that God just doesn’t care about me?  Input  The Responsorial Psalm is the first...