"STAY WITH US, LORD" (Luke 24:29)

A PERSONAL PROFESSION OF FAITH BEGETS RENEWED ENCOUNTER 1st Reading               Acts 4:32-35 Psalm                          Psalm 118:2-4,15-18,22-24 2nd Reading              1 John 5:1-6 Gospel                        John 20:19-31 Beloved, Happy Divine Mercy Sunday! Today is the Second Sunday of Easter and it is dubbed “Divine Mercy Sunday”, a day on which we recount the merciful love of God and proclaim, further with the Psalmist, that “the Lord's mercy endures forever” (cf. Ps. 118: 1, Responsorial Psalm).  The readings of this Sunday have been carefully  chosen with special regard for the season of Easter in which we are, and seconded by the acknowledgement of the Divine Mercy which gives ‘peace amidst fear’. Jesus' Heart is our home, our rest, the centre of reversal and rep...

HOLY THURSDAY  1st Reading    Exodus 12:1-8,11-14 Psalm               Psalm 116:12-13,15-18 2nd Reading   1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel              John 13:1-15 Beloved, we have been ushered into the crucial moments of the Holy Week, the Triduum. Holy Thursday commemorates two sacraments: ‘Holy Orders, thus, the institution of the ministerial priesthood’ and the ‘institution of the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist’. These two sacraments go hand in hand. Jesus instituted ‘the worker and the work’. The readings of this evening are eucharistic. The first reading speaks of the ‘Passover’ event in Egypt. Paul, in the Second reading, recounts Jesus' words at the Last Supper as handed over to him by the Lord. John's Gospel informs us about the washing of the feet of the apostles and Jesus ‘being at table’ (cf. Jn. 13:12).  Just like how John's Gospel emphasizes signs having deeper theological m...