Fifth Sunday of Easter  (Year A, May 3. 2026) John 14:1-12    “Although you foresee trials that menace you like thorns or thistles, let not your heart be afraid…” ‘As a lily among thorns so is my love among maidens.’ O shining lily! Tender and delicate flower! Unbelieving and seditious men surround you: see that you tread with care among

Forth Sunday of Easter  (Year A, Apr 26. 2026) John 10:1-10     “To make oneself a stranger to the actions of this age (Saeculi actibus se facere alienum)”(RB 4:20) St. Benedict finds those who are to become his followers in the midst of the multitude of people (Prol. 14), but in calling them to undertake the journey to the

Third Sunday of Easter  (Year A, Apr 19. 2026) Luke 24:13-35     “Were not our hearts burning within uswhile he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” “Speak, Lord, to the heart of your servant, that my heart may speak with You” (Guigo). This is the whole amazing mystery of God’s Word, coming once

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