Pro-life reflections and intercessions related to the Sunday readings
We often hear that wealth, power, and pleasure are the things that we should strive for; that our happiness, our true joy, is found in them. Today’s readings tell us the very opposite. “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!” Power, riches, and pleasure are transitory in nature; they will pass away with time.
Read MorePreaching the Gospel of Life is challenging in today’s secular culture. It was also challenging for St. Paul and St. Barnabas as their experience in Antioch is described in the first reading. And yet, amid persecution “the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit”.
Read MoreThe Fourth Sunday of Easter is known as “Good Shepherd Sunday” and the Church asks the faithful to pray for vocations to the priesthood in a particular way today.
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