This Sunday, we are taking on the task of Ordinary Time with particular vigor, the task of service to neighbour. Now is the time for grass roots service projects, those forms of service that each of us should take on as part of our commitment to Jesus and that will…

Many of us find it hard to understand why Jesus would rebuke the poor disciples trying to wake him up to help as their boat is sinking. Aren’t true disciples supposed to run to their master in their moment of need? Isn’t it a sign of their faith and trust…

Today’s Gospel passage comes from a sequence called Mark’s ‘day of parables’. In the parables, we can meet Jesus as an imaginative friend who is explaining his concerns and hopes to us. He tells us of ‘the Kingdom’, in which Israel’s great hopes and all our human longings, will be…

The Feast of Corpus Christ celebrates the tradition and belief in the Body and Blood of Christ and his Real Presence in the Eucharist. It emphasizes the joy of the institution of the Eucharist, which was observed on Holy Thursday in the somber atmosphere of the nearness of Good Friday….

Today we honour the Most Holy Trinity, the divine mystery at the heart of our faith. Far from being some unfathomable puzzle, however, Most Holy Trinity is as much about us and God’s relationship to us as it is about God alone. Trinity Sunday is one of the few celebrations…

Our Easter celebration comes to a resounding conclusion today, the fiftieth day of Easter. Although Pentecost is part of and completes the Easter celebration, its focus is much more on the community that endured form Easter Day to this day, the Church. Its red vesture, the color of the Holy…

All partings are difficult. It is never easy to say goodbye. The time also came for Jesus, risen from the dead, to return to heaven from earth. As we heard in today’s Gospel, Jesus took his seat at the right hand of the Father. Jesus completed his mission on earth…

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” There is one thing everyone can do: we can love God and his Son Jesus, and we can love our neighbor – that is, any person who is near us – as we love ourselves. God created us to…

Just when we think we can sing no more, when even Easter joy seems exhausting, the liturgy demands once again: “Sing! O sing a new song to the Lord, for he has worked wonders” (Entrance Antiphon). The Collect seems to sense our need for encouragement and so prays that we…

The Fourth Sunday of Easter is traditionally known as “Good Shepherd Sunday” in reference to the Gospel of the day – always a passage from John, Chapter 10 – in which Jesus describes himself as the Good Shepherd. What more powerful, more beloved image of Jesus is there than the…