June 2021 archive of Homilies
Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)
Posted by Fr Terry Grachanin on 6/11/21
Acts 4:32-35 | Ps 118 | 1 Jn 5:1-6 | Jn 20:19-31
In the ongoing quest to become better parents, moms and dads often find a great deal of reassurance in books, whose authors advocate a whole-child approach that honors the totality of who children are. In recent studies, ... Read More »
Easter Sunday | The Resurrection of the Lord
Posted by Fr Terry Grachanin on 6/11/21
Acts 10:34a, 37-43 | Ps 118 | Col 3:1-4 | Sequence victimae paschali laudes | Jn 20:1-9
On Easter, we sing a question. What’s referred to as the Easter Sequence (before the proclamation of the Gospel) the sequence has us pleading: “Mary, speak, declare to us what you saw ... Read More »
Holy Saturday | The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
Posted by Fr Terry Grachanin on 6/11/21
Gn 1:1-2, 2:2 | Ex 14:15-15:1 | Is 55:1-11 | Rom 6:3-11 | Mk 16:1-7
Why do we tell our Christian story on this night? Why do we go all the way back to creation, the patriarchs, Moses parting the Red Sea, to tell the story of the Gospel—Christ ... Read More »
Holy Thursday | Mass of the Lord's Supper
Posted by Fr Terry Grachanin on 6/11/21
Ex 12:1-8, 11-14 | Ps 116 | 1 Cor 11:23-26 | Jn 13:1-15
With great solemnity, this evening, the Universal Church begins the Sacred Paschal Triduum, the three holiest days of the Church year.
At this, the first of these sacred celebrations, the primary mysteries we commemorate in this ... Read More »