We Are What We Remember
A reflection on the readings for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, April 6, 2023. On Palm Sunday, I recall inviting my parishioners to make Holy Week a time to remember the events of our redemption. I recall saying...
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Holy Thursday with Pope Francis
For the first time since 2019, Pope Francis’s schedule on Holy Thursday looked much like it did before the pandemic. He began the day with a Chrism Mass celebrated with some 1,800 Roman priests and many other bishops, cardinals, and...
Judas, Our Brother
Introduction — Fr. Alex Roche In June of 2017 Pope Francis visited the small village of Bozzolo in the Diocese of Cremona, located in northern Italy’s Po Valley. The images of a Roman Pontiff visiting the little town of 5,000...
Closeness is the Key to Truth
Since the first Holy Thursday of his papacy, when he moved the Mass of the Lord’s Supper to a youth prison on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Francis has used this day to paint a portrait of his vision for...
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