by Sister Patricia Berliner, C.S.J. IN THE LAST few weeks, we have been walking with the disciples through a holy boot camp. Losing their bravado softened them and made pathways for new ideas, beliefs and behaviors. Finally, it all started to come together and they began to see themselves, others, Jesus, and God the Father-figure […]
Sunday Scriptures
Go With God and Be a Blessing
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 […]
Inspired by the Spirit, Renew the Face of the Earth
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 […]
Paraclete Drives Humanity to God
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 […]