For a little while now, I’ve wanted to offer a refresher on some of the prayers and gestures we practice as Catholics, which tend to erode over time without our being aware. I hope these reminders will help us to stay united in our common life.

I’m happy to say that the PAVERS have been engraved by the Stations of the Cross. And I’m also happy to announce that we’ve installed a HEARING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM in the church!

Maybe I’m stretching to connect it to the readings for this Sunday, but I think the image of the Church as a field hospital is perhaps a helpful way to understand Christ as the Good Shepherd, as we hear Him described this weekend.

I’d like to make available to you here some of the Resurrection Accounts found in the Scriptures. You might like to do some reading about them on your own. In any case, it’s pretty cool to see them laid out together.

The devotion to the Divine Mercy comes from the mystical visions of the Polish Saint, Faustina Kowalska. In 1931, Jesus appeared to her. Then, through a series of apparitions, He spoke with her and taught her.

People still say it: “I’m spiritual but not religious.” It’s an old expression, but it’s also very modern and still in vogue. It’s used to describe someone whose spiritual life is divorced from organized religion.

What’s it going to take for us to remain with Christ? To stay with Him. To follow Him all the way to the cross, so as truly to share in His Resurrection?

The Christian is different. The Christian knows that to die is to live. The Christian is literally dying to live.