The actual Pentecost event occurred on the Jewish Feast of Pentecost. The Jewish Feast is also known as the Festival of Weeks which was the completion of the seven weeks following Passover. This was a time of Thanksgiving during which the harvest took place and the first fruits were brought to the Temple. The day […]
Continue ReadingActs 28:16-20,20,31; Ps 11:4,5,7; Jn 21:20-25 Saint Paul ends his witness in Rome wearing chains solely because he shares the hope of Israel. Simon Peter learns that his business is to follow the Lord Jesus rather than be concerned wit the witness of the other disciple, the Beloved Disciple. His is the ideal witness […]
Continue ReadingActs 25:13b-21; Ps 103:1,2,11,12,19,20; Jn 21:15-19 We join in praying the Psalm; we join in blessing the LORD and never forgetting all his benefits. From his throne above all other thrones, the LORD judges, and his judgment is mercy. The LORD, who rules over all, offers all his pardon and his mercy. “As far […]
Continue ReadingActs 22:30-23:6-11; Ps 16:1-2a,5,7-11; Jn 17:20-26 It is the confident prayer of believers in every age that is our response to the first reading. The Psalm invites trust in the Lord God Almighty praying, “with God at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.” Such confidence is a total experience, the heart is glad […]
Continue ReadingActs 20:28-38; Ps 68:29,30,33-36ab; Jn 17:11b-19 The power and strength that God gives to his people is the power of the Word. It is their word of revelation that brings truth into our world even though the world has hated us for it. In truth, this word of God’s design for world unity is […]
Continue ReadingActs 20:17-27; Ps 68:10,11,20,21; Jn 17:1-11a The flock has settled in a land restored. Those who followed the Apostle have seen and beard him bearing witness to the Gospel of God’s […]
Continue Reading
Mass from the Mary Mother of Mercy Mausoleum Chapel.
Continue ReadingActs 19:1-8; Ps 68:2,3ab,4,5acd,6,7ab; Jn 16:29-33 Just before we read the High Priestly Prayer of the Lord Jesus in Saint John’s Gospel, we hear the Lord giving an absolute assurance to his disciples, “but take courage! I have overcome the world.” These words of comfort from the Lord Jesus echo the triumph of our responsorial […]
Continue Reading
Today’s scriptures reflect on the experience of the disciples following the Ascension; Saint Luke reports the Ascension of Jesus twice, once at the end of his Gospel (Luke 24:50-53) and again at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:6-12), which we hear today. In the dioceses of Pennsylvania we celebrated the Ascension […]
Continue ReadingMost Rev. Edward C. Malesic, bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, ordained one Benedictine monk a priest and one a deacon on Saturday, May 23, at the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ordination Mass was not open to the public. Father Ignatius Camello, O.S.B., has been serving in the Diocese […]
Continue Reading