Category: Daily Prayer

“Jesus was revealed to the Eleven. He took them to task for their disbelief and their stubbornness, since they had put no faith in those who had seen Him after He had been raised.” –Mark 16:14 Mass Readings: April 7 First: Acts 4:13-21; Resp: Psalm 118:1,14-21; Gospel: Mark 16:9-15 Listen to the Mass Readings The apostles didn’t have faith in the risen Christ even after hearing about His Resurrection from Mary Magdalene and the two disciples who met Jesus on the road to Emmaus (Mk 16:11, 13). Then the risen Jesus Himself rebuked the apostles for their lack of faith...

“It was done in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean Whom you crucified and Whom God raised from the dead.” –Acts 4:10 Mass Readings: April 6 First: Acts 4:1-12; Resp: Psalm 118:1-2,4,22-27; Gospel: John 21:1-14 Listen to the Mass Readings Peter recognized the risen Christ when he repented of going back into the fishing business (see Jn 21:3ff). Three-thousand people were baptized into the risen Christ when they repented of their part in Jesus’ crucifixion through their sins (Acts 2:38, 41). On the evening after Jesus’ Resurrection, He commanded His apostles to preach to the nations “repentance and forgiveness...

“When Peter saw this, he addressed the people as follows…” –Acts 3:12 Mass Readings: April 5 First: Acts 3:11-26; Resp: Psalm 8:2,5-9; Gospel: Luke 24:35-48 Listen to the Mass Readings When Peter preached the next time after Pentecost, the Lord led many to believe. “The number of the men came to about five thousand” (Acts 4:4). In this preaching, Peter proclaimed that: God healed the lame man to glorify Jesus (Acts 3:13). His fellow Israelites and all of us “disowned the Holy and Just One” (Acts 3:14) and “put to death the Author of life” (Acts 3:15). “God raised [Jesus]...

“Jesus approached and began to walk along with them.” –Luke 24:15 Mass Readings: April 4 First: Acts 3:1-10; Resp: Psalm 105:1-4,6-9; Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 Listen to the Mass Readings Jesus wants to give us a real Easter. He wants to come to us in a new way and manifest His risen glory. He may come to us as a stranger criticizing us and saying: “What little sense you have! How slow you are to believe!” (Lk 24:25) Jesus may open our eyes to His risen presence by interpreting the Scriptures (Lk 24:27) and breaking the bread of the Eucharist (Lk...

“She supposed He was the gardener.” –John 20:15 Mass Readings: April 3 First: Acts 2:36-41; Resp: Psalm 33:4-5,18-20,22; Gospel: John 20:11-18 Listen to the Mass Readings Mary Magdalene stood at the foot of Jesus’ cross on Good Friday (Jn 19:25). “In the place where He had been crucified there was a garden,” and in this garden Jesus was buried (Jn 19:41-42). Jesus had earlier prophesied that “unless the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat. But if it dies, it produces much fruit” (Jn 12:24). This garden at Calvary contained the...