Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) (Year A, Apr 12. 2026) John 20:19-31     The Quest for the Real: Longing to Touch the Origin…. “It is well known that in the episcopate of Langres there is a monastery, Molesme by name, of the most celebrated renown, and remarkable for monastic observance. From its origin, God’s clemency within

The Resurrection of the Lord – The Mass of Easter Day (Year A, Apr 5. 2026) John 20:1-9   “Your heart is my tomb … Your soul is my garden….” “There, in our innermost ‘I’, Jesus is present. Everything that goes on outside our heart and, as it were, at the door of our heart, serves only to help uncover

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Year A, Mar 29. 2026) Matthew 21:1-11   “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;Hosanna in the highest.” “There are four kinds of people, then, in the Lord’s procession: there are the wise and good, who go ahead, and there are the simple and good, who follow. (I add “good”

Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A, Mar 22. 2026) John 11:1-45 “Untie him and let him go.”   “At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God

Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A, Mar 15. 2026) John 9:1-41 “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God”       If you say, “Show me your God,” I will say to you, “Show me what kind of person you are, and I will show you my God.” Show me then whether the eyes of your mind

Third Sunday of Lent (Year A, Mar 8. 2026) John 4:5-42 “WITH”      “All the pleasures of the world, and all the kingdoms of this earth, shall profit me nothing. It is better for me to die on behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth. For what shall a man be profited,

Second Sunday of Lent (Year A, Mar 1. 2026) Matthew 17:1-9 “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;listen to him.”        The very idea ‘Will of God’ prompts a certain amount of resistance nowadays, especially when used in connection with obedience … One cannot altogether deny that a type of spirituality current in the

First Sunday of Lent (Year A, Feb 22. 2026) Matthew 4:1-11 “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert…”   Inner Liberation Writer Stephen Copeland recounts how the stories of the desert fathers and mothers have inspired modern Christians to take contemplative practice more seriously: The ancient path of the desert mystics invites us to disrupt the patterns of