Father Leslie Hoppe, OFM

May 15, 2024

May 19: Pentecost Sunday

In many families, religious communities, parishes and businesses, there are people who take care of things without a lot of fanfare or recognition. They do not look for thanks but only for the opportunity to be of service. As a result, their contributions are sometimes overlooked, and their service is not always appreciated as it should be.

May 01, 2024

May 12: Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

In a few weeks, graduation season will begin. Many young people from grammar schools to graduate schools are impatiently waiting for their graduation day.

May 01, 2024

May 5: Sixth Sunday of Easter

“This is my commandment: Love one another.” One would think that this is an easy commandment to fulfill, but consider who is asking.

April 17, 2024

April 28: Fifth Sunday of Easter

Several years ago, a CIA agent was discovered to be passing top secret information to the Russians. His actions led to a most serious breach of security that resulted in the deaths of several American agents who were working undercover in Russia.

April 17, 2024

April 21: Fourth Sunday of Easter

Christians have always regarded the figure of the good shepherd as an attractive and endearing image of Jesus. The first Christians especially appreciated it. Many tombs found in Rome’s catacombs have an image of Jesus depicted as a shepherd emblazoned upon them.

April 03, 2024

April 14: Third Sunday of Easter

Jesus lived and died as an observant Jew. Jesus’ disciples were Jews. The first Christians were Jews. Those Jews who accepted the Gospel did not turn their backs on the ancestral faith. Continuity with their religious past and its commitments was very important for Jewish Christians.

April 03, 2024

April 7: Second Sunday of Easter

This Sunday has been known by different names. Early liturgical books referred to it as White Sunday. It was the last day on which the newly baptized wore the white garments they received at their baptism that took place during the Easter Vigil.

March 13, 2024

March 31: Resurrection of the Lord

No one expected it. Not Mary Magdalene, nor any of the other women and men who followed Jesus from Galilee.

March 13, 2024

March 24: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion

Today’s liturgy begins with a commemoration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. In Mark’s account of Jesus’ ministry, this is the only time Jesus visits Jerusalem since beginning his mission to his fellow Jews, calling them to repentance of faith in view of God’s final and decisive move in Israel’s life. Jesus comes to Jerusalem to issue that call to its people, urging them to respond without delay.

March 13, 2024

March 17: Fifth Sunday of Lent

It’s a natural enough scene: People want to meet the young rabbi that everyone has been talking about. Some Greek-speaking Jews from the diaspora have come to Jerusalem on the pilgrimage for the feast of Passover. They approach Philip and Andrew, two members of Jesus’ entourage with Greek names that had no Hebrew equivalent. Perhaps the pilgrims thought that Philip and Andrew would be willing to introduce them to their rabbi.
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