Gospel Reflection

In today’s gospel, we hear those beautiful words, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, is a gift to us. We first “received” this gift in Baptism and its fullness in Confirmation. The

In 2018 I had the fantastic opportunity of going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a group of priests and lay people from Miles Christi. It was an experience that changed forever my way of reading Sacred Scripture.

A few days before Pentecost in 1544, the well-known miracle of St. Philip Neri’s heart took place. One of his biographers describes it as so: “While he was with the greatest earnestness asking of the Holy Ghost, His gifts, there

Today we get another powerful “I am” statement from Jesus. As we mentioned before, each time Jesus says “I am” in the Gospel of John, we should open our eyes very wide and pay close attention. These statements show us

Today we celebrate the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also known as Good Shepherd Sunday. As we read the Gospel of the Good Shepherd, the Church invites us to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life; this is also

The disciples, on their way to Emmaus, were downcast and depressed. Their faith was wavering after the passion and death of Jesus. They felt as if Jesus had failed and wasn’t all they hoped to be. In those circumstances, “Jesus

As St. John Paul II put it, “Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity.” We will first see in today’s Gospel how Jesus bestows on us the gift

In the book of the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius of Loyola places as one of the first meditations on the Resurrection the visit of our Lord to his most Holy Mother. While this has a scriptural basis, it is not

Jesus enters triumphantly in Jerusalem. “The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road.” Let’s notice the joy of the Heart of Jesus at seeing this