By Sister Patricia Berliner, C.S.J. In last week’s readings, we saw the disciples faced with probably the most frightening experience of their lives.  Having seen Jesus, the  Messiah they were awaiting, crucified, they gathered together in the upper room, awaiting the day of Pentecost, maybe praying,  maybe  schmoozing, maybe eating or snoozing when, out of  nowhere, the room was […]

by Sister Patricia Berliner, C.S.J. COME, O HOLY Spirit, Come. The entrance antiphon for this week’s readings is: “The  love of God has been poured into our hearts by God’s spirit living in us.” In the first reading from the  Acts of the Apostles, we learn that when the time for  Pentecost was fulfilled, they  were […]

By Fr. Thomas Catania HAD HE BEEN ABLE to foresee the proliferation of lawyer jokes in subsequent centuries, John the Evangelist might not have been so quick to transpose his insight into what the abiding presence of the Risen Jesus meant to believers into lawyer-ly terms. For, although it is open to a variety of […]