PASSION SUNDAY This week, Holy Week, Our Lord taught us how to live and how to love. There are many lessons we can learn from Our Lord’s Passion and Death. One lesson is forgiveness. We, mankind, are sinners. Our Lord has good reason to punish us, but instead, He punished Himself. By His Passion and Death, Our Lord took our punishment on Himself and removed all punishment from us. Our God and Our Creator, who is innocent, chose to suffer a cruel Passion and Death so t

GOSPEL REFLECTION: Lazarus is risen from the dead. There are two other occasions, in the Bible, when Jesus raises a person from the dead. The daughter of Jairus and the son of the widow of the town of Nain. By raising people from the dead Jesus proves that He is Divine. Finally, Jesus raises Himself from the dead which causes St Thomas to say to Him: “My Lord and My God.” There have been many examples of the dead being raised to life through prayer for example, in the 15th

GOSPEL REFLECTION LAETARE SUNDAY Our Lord heals a blind man by using a paste of clay – ordinary elements from nature. The miracle today is unusual – a paste of clay. In the first reading from the book of Samuel, David is anointed with oil and this oil causes the Spirit of God to work powerfully upon David from that day until his death. Today, God continues to use ordinary elements from nature to give His Life to us - in the Sacraments for example. A Sacrament is when God

GOSPEL REFLECTION: The Samaritan woman at the well. The Samaritan woman was at the well on her own – and at midday – the hottest time of the day. This was probably to escape criticism or scornful looks and verbal abuse because the woman had had five husbands and the man, she now lived with was not her husband. For this reason, she may have been despised by all the people in the village. A woman perhaps not receiving true love from anyone. She may have even despised herself

In 1981 the Pope, St. John Paul II established perpetual Eucharistic adoration in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and at that time, he prayed that every parish would have perpetual Eucharistic adoration. Adoration is simply appreciation that the Blessed Sacrament is really Our Lord. This appreciation is expressed when a parish has a chapel or sets aside a small prayer room that is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. There are