May 24, 2026, Pentecost Sunday: Our participation in Pentecost this Sunday may be more than a celebration of the workings of the Spirit in our church and its birthday. It may also host an occasion for each of us to take note of just where the Spirit is making its gifts concretely known in our own lives.
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Step out, move forward and look outward
May 17, 2026, Ascension Sunday: Jesus’ resurrected humanity now joins with the Father, but does not leave us. Jesus, the one manifested in our humanity, not only disclosed our God, but also established a holy and divine kinship with us forever.
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A new relationship between love and obedience
May 10, 2026, Sixth 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.
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The Christian challenge to empire
May 3, 2026, Fifth Sunday of Easter: Everything about the life and teachings of Jesus challenged the Roman worldview, its values and its fidelities.
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Jesus’ promise: Life in abundance
April 26, 2026, Fourth Sunday of Easter: The new Christian communities Peter speaks about were not only alternatives to the ways of the Roman world but could be an alternative, perhaps, even to our own.
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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.
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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.”
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A light shines in the darkness
April 5, 2026, Easter Sunday: Let us pray that Christ’s life and light will open our hearts to encounter him this Easter and throughout this holy season.
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A love that conquers death
April 4, 2026, Easter Vigil: The readings on this holiest of nights prove particularly poignant and revelatory. They disclose in the starkest of narratives and poetic verses the very nature of our God.
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The High Ethic of Love
March 29, 2026, Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion: This Sunday’s Gospel of the Passion will provide our first glance at the tragedy that followed, one that will take place on yet a different mount, Calvary.