4th Sunday of Lent
To All the Lenten Pilgrims of Hope of the Epiphany Grace Welcomes Home What Pride Casts Away The Fourth Sunday of Lent (30 March 2025): Luke 15:11-32 On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, the Gospel of the father and the two sons better known as the Parable of the “Prodigal Son” (Lk 15:11-32) is proclaimed. This […]
3rd Sunday of Lent
To All the Lenten Pilgrims of the Epiphany Call to Repentance and the Patience of God Third Sunday of Lent (Luke 13:1-9) The Gospel for this third Sunday of Lent (Luke 13: 1-9) speaks to us about God’s mercy and of our conversion. Jesus recounts the parable of the barren fig tree. A man has planted […]
Second Sunday of Lent
To All the Lenten Pilgrims of Hope of the Epiphany of the Lord The Transfiguration: The Glory of Love The Second Sunday of Lent, Luke 9:28b-36, (16 March, 2025) On this Second Sunday of Lent, the liturgy leads us to contemplate the event of the Transfiguration in which Jesus allows the disciples Peter, James and […]
First Sunday of Lent
To All the Lenten Pilgrims of Hope of the Epiphany The Triumph of Christ: Overcoming Temptation Through God’s Word The First Sunday of Lent: Luke 4: 1-13 (March 09, 2025) The Tempter seeks to divert Jesus from the Father’s plan, that is, from the Way of Sacrifice, of the Love that offers itself in Expiation, to make […]
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time
To All the Parishioners of the Epiphany of the LordA Call to Authentic Discipleship: The Heart as the Wellspring of Life This vocation to perfect love is not restricted to a small group of individuals. The invitation, “go, sell your possessions and give the money to the poor”, and the promise “you will have treasure […]
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
To All the Parishioners of Epiphany of the LordThe Culture of Mercy: The Christian Style This command, to respond to insult and wrongdoing with love, has created a new culture in the world: “a culture of mercy” — we need to learn this well!And properly practice this culture of mercy — which “can set in […]
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
To All the Parishioners of the Epiphany of the Lord Luke 6:17, 20-26The Discourse of the Plain: A Life Program and a Catalog of Virtues Today’s Gospel presents us Saint Luke’s passage on the Beatitudes (Luke 6:17, 20-26). The text is arranged into four beatitudes and four admonitions denoted by the expression, woe to you. […]
Feast of the Notre-Dame de Lourdes
To All the Marian Devotees of the Epiphany of the Lord The Feast of the Notre-Dame de Lourdes: I am the Immaculate Conception The Virgin Mary herself desired this tie: What the Sovereign Pontiff defined in Rome through his infallible Magisterium, the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, blessed among all women, wanted to confirm by […]
Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
All Parishioners of the Epiphany of the Lord The Gospel of Luke 5:1-11 Duc in Altum!: Put Out Into the Deep! This Sunday’s Gospel (09 February) tells us – in St Luke’s narrative – of the call of Jesus’ first disciples (Luke 5:1-11). Jesus gets into one of the boats, that of Simon, called Peter, whom […]
The Presentation of the Lord
To All the Parishioners of the Epiphany of the Lord Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple (Luke 2:22-40): The Feast of the Encounter and The Day of Consecrated Life Today’s celebration, especially in the East, is called the feast of the encounter. Essentially, in the Gospel that has been proclaimed, we […]