These readings are apt ones for our current situation. I imagine many of you feel almost in exile with the social distancing, recommendations to stay home, and the suspension of public Mass, the world around us feels quite weird, almost dead. But the Good News God brings to us this week reminds us that it is from such things that God works…

Both the third chapter of ‘Joy of the Gospel’ and our readings this week are concerned with the same element of evangelization: how we transmit the Gospel from person to person. While the central task of telling people about Jesus might seem simple, there is a lot we can do to help that seed take root! Let’s turn to our readings this…

This past Thursday we began our Lenten reading of Pope Francis’ Joy of the Gospel. In the first chapter Pope Francis outlines our cause for joy even in a troubled world and ailing Church: our personal encounter and relationship with Jesus. Francis observes that we ought to have a relationship with Jesus where we can say “Lord, I have let myself be deceived;…