God scatters the seed whether we’re ready, paying attention, or willing to receive the seed at all. This is part of God’s gracious self-giving. God is always speaking to us and the seed is always being sown. 

Jesus opens his heart to embrace the heaviness that we carry in ours; he doesn’t take away our cross, but he labors with us. And this is how burdens become light: because he carries them with us.

We can never stop listening or learning. And so, in a sense, in this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus is asking us, “How well are you listening?” and “Who are you listening to?”

If God cares so much for tiny bird, how much more is God concerned for the disciples? How much more is God, who hears the cry of the poor, concerned for us?

Our task is simple: to share good news—to proclaim Christ—by sharing with the world what we ourselves have seen and come to believe.

The Eucharist is an act of communion and we are brought into the life of Christ and the Church, as we are brought out of ourselves.

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity invites us to consider that all of our relationships are reflections of that unique and dynamic communion that exists within God.

Mary and Elizabeth had experienced God’s miraculous intervention in their lives in ways that left them permanently changed and, ultimately, transformed history.

Our Pentecost mission is to share our gifts and spend ourselves nurturing others, drawing them into the unity of the Spirit and the Church, and to open ourselves to the workings of the Spirit in the diversity of the gifts and lives of others.

Looking forward to that day when we recall the gift of the Spirit’s fullness on that first Pentecost, the liturgy and the witness of these martyrs invite us to reflect on our own call to mission and evangelization.

Jesus disappears from the disciples’ physical sight so that he might become more present to the eyes of their hearts.

The invitation for us this Sunday is to reflect on how we understand the Holy Spirit and to open our minds and hearts to the Spirit’s transforming love.

Jesus offered his followers, just as he offers each of us, the possibility of a new and life-changing relationship with God and each other within the communion of the Church.

Through Jesus and because he has given his life for “his flock,” we have an abundance of life.

As women and men who have come to share in the Apostles’ and Evangelists’ belief in the Risen Lord, we too are called to the same evangelizing mission that was entrusted to them.

The Resurrection shows us that there is always reason to hope and that Christ remains with us, journeying with us as we walk our pilgrim path.

Easter reminds us that there is something more powerful suffering and death: the love of the God who, in Christ, has taken upon himself our broken humanity.

We have been re-created for love, for joy, for zeal, and for gratitude. We have been granted the freedom to be truly alive.

It was on this day that Jesus entered into the darkest recesses of the human experience, bringing the Divine Presence into the reality of death itself

Good Friday reminds us that God has hidden the seed of divine life in our experiences of suffering.