by Alex Osei | Apr 23, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B (Good Shepherd Sunday) Acts 4: 8-12; 1John3:1-2; John 10:11-18 Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday. The gospel proclaims Jesus as the good shepherd who gave up his life for his flock. During the holy...
by Alex Osei | Apr 15, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
3rd Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 3:13-15,17-19; 1John 2:1-5; Luke 24: 35-48 We are in the third Sunday of Easter, and in today’s gospel, the Risen Lord appears again to His disciples. They are still troubled; broken apart and scattered by His crucifixion and death and...
by Alex Osei | Apr 8, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER – B ACTS 4:32-35 PSALM 118 1 JOHN 5:1-6 JOHN 20:19-31 Today is the second Sunday of Easter, which is also celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. In today’s gospel, the Risen Lord breathes the Holy Spirit on His disciples and sends them to forgive...
by Alex Osei | Apr 1, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
Acts 10:34,37-43; Col. 3:1-4; John 20:1-19 The Lord is risen, brothers and sisters, alleluia! On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead as he had said to his disciples. And we have, in John’s gospel that would be proclaimed today, the figures Mary of Magdala, Simon...
by Alex Osei | Mar 24, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark14:1-15:39 Today is the Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the beginning of the Holy Week. After we commemorate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem in the opening liturgy, the gospel takes us to Jesus’s last supper with his...
by Alex Osei | Mar 17, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Jer.31:31-34; Ps. 50:3-15; Hebrew 5:7-9; John 12:20-30 Today on the 5th Sunday of Lent, we journey with Christ as he prepares himself to embrace the hour of humiliation and suffering, the hour of his impending death. The first reading of this...
by Alex Osei | Mar 3, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
3rd SUNDAY OF LENT Exodus 20. 1-17; 1Cor.1.18, 22-25; John 2. 13-25 Antiphon: Psalm 24.15-16: “My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues my feet from the snare. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and poor.” This is a most human cry. There are times...
by Alex Osei | Feb 25, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15 Romans 8:31-35,37 Mark 9:2-10 God is in everything we do. St Paul wrote in the second reading “if God is for us, who can be against us.” Scripture uses Mountains as the stages of important encounters between God and his people. Today’s first...
by Andrew Voce | Feb 25, 2024 | New York Grand
An iconic Knight of St. John International goes home to be with our lord. Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Zdanowicz, age 88, passed away in peace and tranquility on Thursday, December 14, 2023, in the comfort and dignity of his home with his wife and loving family by his side....
by Alex Osei | Feb 17, 2024 | Spiritual Advisor
1st Sunday of Lent Genesis 9:8-15 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1: 12-15 Today is the 1st Sunday of Lent, and today’s gospel brings us back to the time when the spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, where he remained for 40 days in prayer and fasting. During lent, we go into...
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