Reflecting on the Emmaus story, St. Augustine suggested that the risen Lord enters our lives when we ponder, even though we cannot see the one who gathers us in by way of our memories.
Scripture
Posted inScripture Reflections
Scriptural chiaroscuro
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Edward Desciak
Posted inThe Word
Shattered hopes now restored
April 19, 2026, Third Sunday of Easter: All of this Sunday’s readings focus on the relationship between the Old Testament and the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Posted inScripture Reflections
A world made for each other
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Colleen Dulle
Posted inScripture Reflections
Faith is about questions
A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week of Easter, by Kat O’Loughlin
Posted inScripture Reflections
Jesus’ first lesson for the church
A Reflection for the Saturday in the Octave of Easter, by Ashley McKinless
Posted inScripture Reflections
Diving head first to meet the Lord
A Reflection for Friday in the Octave of Easter, by Brigid McCabe
Posted inScripture Reflections
Every sinful, unreliable and cowardly Catholic is called to be an evangelizer
A Reflection for Thursday in the Octave of Easter, by Sebastian Gomes
Posted inThe Word
Faith as evidence of things not seen
April 12, 2026, Second Sunday of Easter: Our Church sets forth a two-thousand-year testimony of the lives of men and women, the great communion of saints, as well as those perhaps in our own time whose lives of faith “bear evidence of things not seen.”
Posted inThe Good Word
What young mothers share with the disciples locked in the upper room
A Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, by Father Terrance Klein