Daily Reflections

Saint Paul reminds the Corinthians of the Gospel he received and handed on: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day. The Christian faith stands upon this apostolic proclamation. The Gospel then gives us the striking encounter between Jesus and the sinful woman who enters Simon the Pharisee’s house. […]

The Church commemorates two pastors who suffered martyrdom in defense of the faith, while the readings place charity at the center of Christian maturity. Saint Paul declares that spiritual gifts, knowledge, prophecy, heroic generosity, and even martyrdom itself become spiritually empty if separated from love. Jesus then describes a generation dissatisfied with every form of […]

The Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows follows immediately after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and places Mary beside the mystery of her Son’s Passion. Hebrews describes Christ offering prayer with tears and learning obedience through suffering. The Gospel then shows Mary standing near the Cross while Jesus entrusts her to the beloved disciple […]

The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross places at the center of the Church’s worship the instrument through which Christ accomplished our redemption. The bronze serpent raised by Moses in the wilderness becomes a figure of the crucified Christ: those who looked upon the sign lived, and Jesus teaches that the Son of […]