Category: Sunday Warm-up

The Vine and the Branch

John 15:1-8

On the spiritual and physical level, there is only one reality that should totally occupy us, love. Our true destiny is to love in a divine way as Jesus did.

The Good Shepherd

John 10:11-18

It’s Good Shepherd Sunday.

The good shepherd for us is a foundational image of Jesus and it speaks volumes of how God chooses to be with us in this world.

Jesus’ Presence

Luke 24:35-48

In the post resurrection, where do we find Jesus? Fortunately, what the Gospel tells us this week, he come to us. As it was important to Thomas last week,

The Wounds of Christ

John 20:19-31

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Thomas must see the wounds of risen Jesus for him to believe. The wounds make Jesus real. They are the scars from his time on earth and the eternal marks of the hatred and cruelty that we subjected him to. Yet,

The Empty Tomb

John 20:1-9

In that first Easter morning, Peter and the other disciple run to Jesus’ tomb and find it as Mary described, empty. We can be sure the question running through their minds was why would anyone take his body.

The Passion of Jesus from Mark

In this most holy week of the year for us, the Church urges us to understand that Christian discipleship is all about the cross and what it signifies. We get Mark’s account of Jesus’

The Seed Must Die

John 12:20-33

“Unless a grain of wheat falls…” Jesus this week teaches about one of the great truths of life. We hear that phrase “go for the gusto”

Living in the Light

John 3:14-21

Jesus sends us a dire warning in the Gospel this week. Choose the light that the Son offers He urges and reject the darkness that surrounds us.

Standing in the Cauldron

John 2:13-25

We hear this Sunday the Gospel account of Jesus ridding the temple of its money racket. Rather than leading people to God and worship, the religious system had been reduced to a money generator for the religious authorities.

Mark 9:2-10 Our Divine Destiny

This Sunday’s Gospel is the Transfiguration. Peter, James and John are given a glimpse of Jesus’ divinity, but it is not His divinity that is the point of the encounter. It is Jesus’

Our Desert Experiences

Mark 1:12-15

We hear in the Gospel this Sunday that Jesus was driven out into the desert. The connotation is that he didn’t have a choice in the matter. When it comes to “desert”

Wounded Healers

Mark 1:40-45 

Our readings this Sunday focus on healing. All of us have times where we are like the leper in the Gospel kneeling before our God begging for relief.