Message on the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus His Eminence Frank Cardinal LeoMetropolitan Archbishop of Toronto1 June 2025
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
May Jesus and Mary be in your hearts.
Among the Christian People, it is our...
Karl Rahner in his scholarship on Christian faith, proposed a reduced creed from which all other Christian tenants flow. “All Christians must believe in the Trinity: God present, Christ sacrificed, and Holy Spirit moving us toward a future...
Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 Heb 7, 23-28 Mk 12, 28-34
It is Jesus Himself who teaches us the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity...
Readings: Acts 2:1-11 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 John 20:19-23We celebrate this solemnity of 50 days after Easter as the fullness of Easter itself. It is the Holy Spirit who gives us any...
Readings: Acts 1, 1-11; Eph 1, 17-23; Lk 24, 46-53)
Our first reading from Acts of the Apostles recounts the events of the last moments and meeting of Christ with his apostles before his ascension...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2,22-29; Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29
The words of Jesus at the Farewell Discourse during the Last Supper are intended as encouragement, concluding with a...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 14:21-27; Revelation 21:1-5; John13:31-35
An essential part of being a follower of Jesus Christ is a willingness to love. How many times have we heard with our ears...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 13:14, 43-52, Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:27-30
The first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, shows the early followers of Jesus willing to sacrifice and...
In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles we have the account of how the followers of Jesus could not stop speaking about Him. On the other hand, the Gospel recounts how they did not believe at first...
Readings: Acts 5:12-16 Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 John 20:9-13
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II designated this Sunday...
Readings: Acts 10: 34. 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Mk 16:1-7
Easter means that God is on a collision course with injustice, with violence, with exploitation. God is against the betrayal of Judas, the denial...
Readings: Isaiah 50.4-7 Philippians 2.6-11 Luke 22.14-23,56
Today is Palm Sunday and the doorway of the Holy Week. Today is also known as Passion Sunday as the Passion Narrative introduces us to the...
Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21 Philippians 3:8-14 John 8:1-11
“Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.” By saying this Jesus didn't mean that...
Readings: Joshua: 5:9a,10-12 2 Corinthians: 5:17-21, Luke: 15:1-3, 11-32
Today on Laetare Sunday, we are encouraged and uplifted by the Parable of the Prodigal Son First, notice the context. Jesus was...
Readings: Ex 3, 1-8.13-15; I Cor 10, 1-6. 10-12; Gos: Lk 13, 1-9)
Among other things, the Lenten Season invites us to true repentance. The parable in the Gospel today sets out...
Readings: Genesis 15:5-12,17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 9:28-36.
The story of the transfiguration is a reminder of the transformation that is proper to authentic Christian living. Every day is a transfiguration...
Readings: Deut. 26, 4-10; Rom 10, 8-13; Lk 4, 1-13
On Ash Wednesday we began our journey with Christ. As a journey that will last for about six and half weeks, the Lenten season presents to...
Readings: 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 Luke 6:27-38
Love your enemy! We Christians have become so used to hearing these words that it is truly difficult...
Readings: Jeremiah 17:5-8; First Corinthians 15:12,16-20; Luke 6:17, 20-26
The word beatitude literally means happiness. The way of happiness that Jesus outlines calls for a transformation from within, a conversion of life. That...
Readings: Isaiah 6:1-9a, 3-8 1Cor 15:1-11 Lk 5:1-11
Many times we hear people when they are challenged to serve the Church, their immediate reactions are: ‘I am not...