April 2023

Month

SAINT PELLEGRINO AKA SAINT PEREGRINE. Can someone who slaps a future Saint become a Saint himself? While the future Saint Paul the Apostle only authorized Saint Stephen’s stoning, the man the Church calls the Patron Saint of Those with Cancer literally sucker punched a Saint-to-be!
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THEY CAME TO KNOW HIM IN THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD. In my bulletin article two weeks ago, on Easter Sunday, I wrote about today’s Gospel of the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus who came to know the Risen Lord in “the breaking of the bread.”
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WHERE WAS SAINT THOMAS? Every year, on the 2nd Sunday of Easter [once called ‘Low Sunday’ due to last Sunday’s highly festive, ‘pull-out-all-the-stops’ Easter celebration, we always hear the so-called Gospel of ‘Doubting Thomas.’
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“HE WAS MADE KNOWN TO THEM IN THE BREAKING OF THE BREAD.” The Gospel at the Easter VIGIL is always from that year’s liturgical ‘Cycle’ of readings. We are now in Cycle ‘A,’
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Every Sacrament and holy Mass enables us to be present to Christ - and Christ to ‘be present’ to us. For we do not simply ‘reenact’ the mysteries of our Faith during Holy Week;
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