April 20: Day by Day with Father Bil
TUESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER -from Father Richard Rohr, OFM To believe that Jesus was raised from the dead is actually not a leap of faith. Resurrection and renewal are, in fact, the universal and observable pattern of everything. We might just as well use non-religious terms like “springtime,” “regeneration,” “healing,” “forgiveness,” “life cycles,” […]
April 19: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF EASTER From the Book of Time by Mary Oliver 1. I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk. But it’s spring, and the thrush is in the woods, somewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing. And so, now, I am standing by […]
April 17/18: Day by Day with Father Bill – Weekend Edition
This is a Beautiful Time by Jessica Powers (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, Order of Carmelites Discalced) This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit. This is the long-awaited day of His reign in our souls through grace. He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open […]
Homily Connect Apr 18: Breaking of the Bread
April 18, 2021 – Third Sunday of Easter – The Breaking of the Bread Scripture Luke 24:35-48 A Bronze Plaque in Louisville Kentucky Commemorates a mystical experience on March 18, 1958 Fr. Thomas Merton In the center of the shopping district I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that […]
April 12: Day by Day with Father Bill
MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF EASTER -from Pope Francis’ Easter Homily this year This is the third message of Easter: Jesus, the Risen Lord, loves us without limits and is there at every moment of our lives. Having made himself present in the heart of our world, he invites us to overcome […]
Homily Connect Apr 11: Devine Mercy Sunday
Second Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday Scripture Acts 4:32-35 John 20:19-31 Let’s Begin with Robert Frost –Mending Wall Something there is that doesn’t like a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun… There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all […]
April 7: Day by Day with Father Bill
EASTER WEDNESDAY -from the Irish poet, John O’Donohue On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry — old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling — and let us have the courage to begin […]
April 6: Day by Day with Father Bill
EASTER TUESDAY The Tree Cutters by Cole Henri You can’t see them and then you can, like bear cubs in the treetops working for man, hoisting one another with ropes and pulleys that seem the clearest possible metaphor for bright feelings vs. dark feelings, as I lie in the grass below, hearing the big limbs fall, like lightning […]
April 5: Day by Day with Father Bill
EASTER MONDAY This is a medieval poem from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: After Christmas comes the crabbed Lent, Which tests the flesh with fish and simpler food; But then the weather of the world wages war against winter, Cold clears away, clouds lift, Brightly sheds the rain in warm showers And falls upon […]
Apr 4 Homily Connect: Easter
Solemnity of the Resurection of the Lord – Easter Scripture John 20:1-9 Poem by Malcom Guite – Easter Dawn He blesses every love that weeps and grieves and now he blesses hers who stood and wept And would not be consoled, or leave her love’s Last touching place, but watched as low light crept Up […]