Tuesday, Week Twenty The Responsorial (Psalm 85) reminds us:: “The Lord speaks of peace to his people.” The “remembrance” that is anamnesis means making present something from the past. In Judges 6:11- 24 Gideon’s memory was not anamnesis. The angel had greeted him, “The Lord is with you, O champion,” but Gideon did not see it. “If the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us...? For now the Lord h

THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR A Questions to Ask Yourself Where do you “find” God? Experience his presence? Feel you are seeing something of the mystery of what and who he is? Does the Eucharist help you do this? Ideas to Consider The Entrance Antiphon invites us to be conscious of God’s presence to us: “If we can be with you even one day, it is better than a thousand without you.” In the Opening Prayer we beg to “love you in all things....” God is the Creator of everythin

The Transfiguration of the Lord Year A The Responsorial (Psalm 97) proclaims: “The Lord is king, the most high over all the earth.” In the Anamnesis or “remembering” after the Institution Narrative (“Consecration”) we remember the three key events of redemption: the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus, with the ascension’s implicit promise that Jesus will “come again.” 2Peter 1:16-19 tells us that Jesus’ “transfiguration” (transformation of appearance) was a preview of