Friday, April 18, 2025

Friday, April 18, 2025

The Responsorial Psalm encourages us to entrust our lives totally to God: “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Psalm 31). Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12 is a song of victory that reveals the strategy of God. Jesus saves, not by using divine force against his...
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...
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...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Saturday, April 12, 2025

  The Responsorial Verse is: “The Lord will guard us as a shepherd guards his flock” (from Jeremiah 31:10-13).  Ezekiel 37:21-28 is God’s solemn promise to restore unity among his People: “I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have...