For this Wednesday of Holy Week, the Gospel of Matthew opens with Judas’ betrayal of Jesus. This stands in stark contract to the witness of love modeled by Jesus’ friend Mary a couple days ago in John’s Gospel for Holy Monday.

The Chrism Mass tradition dates back to the late 5th century, but the practice of a separate Mass from the Holy Thursday evening Mass was instituted by Pope Pius XII in the late 20th century.

For this Monday of Holy Week, the Gospel of John gives us the beautiful story of Mary, the sister of Martha, anointing the feet of Jesus with costly perfumed oil followed by drying Jesus’ feet with her hair.

The end of the Passion reading today climaxes with Jesus’ death, where the paradox of human and divine power again becomes visible…

We don’t know much at all about St. Joseph. It is interesting to me that nowhere in the Gospels do we ever hear anything Joseph says.

By this point in the Lenten season, I am sure that most of us are ready for Easter to hurry up and get here!

The sunrise, another day, another opportunity to come to the light. Over and over, Christ seeks us in our darkness and He does so every day, no matter how comfortable we have become with our own darkness.

The first reading from Exodus proclaims the terms of God’s covenant with the Hebrew nation…

On this Second Sunday of Lent, we hear the story of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the proclamation of the Gospel. The apostles walk away from the experience shocked and confused.

Lent is a time for Trust.