Archive for 'Conversion'

The Feast of St. Paul’s Conversion

Mark 16: 15-18
Acts 22: 3-16 or Acts 9: 1-22/ Ps 117: 1-2
Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
(Mark 16:15)
Our strifes and trials when we preach
Are but a light cross that we bear,
There’ll be more souls that we can reach
If Christ’s Good News is ours to share.
Jesus said to His [...]

New Wine, New Wineskins

Luke 5: 33-39
Colo 1: 15-20 / Psa 100
No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed as well.
(Luke 5:37)
Nothing will last, but in its place,
The old will be replaced with the new;
Leave the comfort of tested ways,
And choose the [...]

Greater than Jonah and Solomon

Matthew 12:38-42
Ex 14:5-18 / Ex 15
An evil and unfaithful generation seeks for a sign.
(Matthew 12:39)
There is no need to look for signs,
Just behold the cross on the wall.
His pain and death clearly defines
Christ’s obedience to save us all.
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from [...]

Witnessing for Jesus

John 15: 26-164a
Acts 16: 11-15 / Ps 149
You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.
(John 15: 27)
The Holy Spirit our Lord has sent
That in His Name we’ll testify;
With His gift of Faith, what can prevent
Our Witnessing for Jesus Christ?
Jesus said, ‘When the Advocate* comes, whom I will send to [...]

The Spirit is Like the Wind

John 3: 1-8
Acts 4:23-31 / Psa 2
No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.
(John 3:3)
Like the wind we can feel or hear it,
Yet we don’t know where it comes or goes.
So it is with the Holy Spirit,
How He comes to us nobody knows.
A Pharisee named Nicodemus, a member of the [...]

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Matthew 11: 16-19
Is 48:17-19 / Ps 1
But wisdom is vindicated by her works.
(Matthew 11:19)
Who judges by appearances
Will not see the fruits the wise discern;
Work to resolve our differences,
And God’s wisdom is the prize we’ll earn.
Jesus said, “To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to [...]