PENTECOST SUNDAY (June 4) Pentecost or Day 50 after our Lord’s resurrection is the day the Holy Spirit chose to descend on the Apostles and

MEMORIAL SATURDAY BEFORE PENTECOST (Saturday, June 3) The Saturday immediately before Pentecost Sunday, we commemorate all the deceased, “from Adam and even until today,” as

LET US DEPART IN PEACE (Friday, June 2) “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should

SCATTERED, EACH TO HIS OWN (Thursday, June 1) This Thursday morning I’m thinking about how divided we are these days, scattered to our own little

JOY-CREATING SORROW (Wednesday, May 31) In today’s Gospel-reading our Lord again talks about a productive kind of sorrow; the kind in which we are born

LOSING THAT WE MAY GAIN (Tuesday, May 30) “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS (Monday, May 29) “Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants

MEEKNESS (Sunday, May 27) “Blessed are the meek (πραεῖς, кротции), for they shall inherit the earth.” (Mt 5:5) Of all the “blessed-nesses” or ways to