Reflections on Fourth Sunday of Easter (year B) from “First Impressions”
/Have you noticed how often we pray the psalms...at least some of us? Nuns, monks, priests, deacons pray the psalms, many psalms, every day. (It’s called the Divine Office. The prayer book they carry with those Psalms is called a Breviary.) But what about the rest of us Catholics?
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/We are witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus
Gospel: Luke 24: 35–48
You are witnesses of these things
Easter Triduum 2024
/This story should give us courage to face what has died in our lives and we can be reassured that God stands with us as we grieve our deaths. But God still has something new in store for us. Each of us knows Good Friday; but we are not stuck there. Though we have reached a dead end, some new life will be shown to us, some new possibility up ahead will open for us.
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/Praying in solidarity with Jesus
Gospel: Mark 14:1—15:47
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”