Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven”. In today’s first reading the two men in white robes warned the apostles against idleness. For sure, it was nice […]
“Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid” Jesus does not want us to be worried and afraid. He promises to be with us always. His victory over death and sin confirms His words of encouragement. As His disciples, we are called to trust in the Lord and then […]
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” In today’s passage of the Gospel Jesus reminds us of the principal thing we are to do: to love one another. Love towards the Lord and our neighbour is essential for every […]
Every year on the 4th Sunday of Easter Jesus appears to us as a Good Shepherd. He calls us His own sheep giving to us a gracious promise of eternal life: “My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish”. The Good […]
In Sunday’s Gospel the disciples experience a miraculous catch of fishand then share a meal with the risen Lord. When Jesus asked them to bring some of the fish they have just caught, Simon Peter went out and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them. I always wondered how […]
“God of everlasting mercy, (…) increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed” those words we can find in the text of the Collect prescribed to this […]