Message for Easter5 April 2026His Eminence Frank Cardinal LeoMetropolitan Archbishop of Toronto
Easter Message 2026
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Praised be Jesus Christ. Happy and Holy Easter to you.
Holy Mother Church celebrates with the greatest joy ever...
Readings: Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 1 Peter 2:4-9 John 14:1-12
The today’s first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, we are already hearing of the early structuring of the Church...
Readings: Acts: 2.14,36-41 1 Peter 2.22-25 John 10.1-10
The Lord is my Shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. The good shepherd offers everything for the sake of his flock...
Readings: Acts: 2.14,22-28 1 Peter 1.17-21 Luke 24.13-35
In the Emmaus story, Jesus as the stranger helps the two disciples to make sense of the past in a new light, they...
Readings: Acts 4:32-35 1 Jn 5:1-6 Jn 20: 19-31
On this Second Sunday of Easter, the church celebrates the feast of Divine Mercy. United as a community of believers, we continue to express our joy...
Readings: Acts: 10:34-42 Colossians 3:1-4 John 20:1-18
This Easter day, we are called to join Paul in giving thanks to God: “Who in his great mercy has given us a new birth, by...
Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mathew 26:14-27.66
On this Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, we are invited to reflect on our own relationship to suffering, either for obedience to God...
Readings: Ezekiel 37:12-14 Romans: 8:8-11 John 11:1-45
When we hear the first reading, from the Prophet Ezekiel, we can at first wonder if this is just some sort of hope for the future or...
Readings: 1Samuel 16.1b, 6-7, 10-13, Ephesians: 5:8-14, John 9:1-4
First reading speaks about Samuel who obeyed God by going to where he was sent to go, specifically to Jesse’s tribe. he...
Readings: Exodus: 17:3-7 Romans: 5:1-2.5-8 John 4:5-42
The first reading of today tells us of the ordeal of the Israelites in the wilderness. After four hundred and thirty years of...
Readings: Genesis 12:1-4a 2 Timothy 1:8b-10 Matthew 17:1-9
Lent is about transfiguration! It is not just our Lord Jesus who becomes transfigured. Rather, all of us can be transfigured if we want...
Readings: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11
Always we begin Lent by reflecting again on our experience of sin. The readings to invite us to wonder how sin ever happened in the...
Readings: Sirach 15:15-20 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 Matthew 5:17-37
In today’s first reading, God presents us with two options, “life and death.” In other words, He gives us the freedom to...
Readings: Isaiah 58:7-10 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 Matthew 5:13-16
At the heart of our Christian faith must be an awareness that Jesus loves us and has died for us and that our lives are totally...
Readings: Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Matthew 5:1-12a
The Beatitudes—a word meaning “blessings”—are indeed the key to world peace, the key to personal happiness, and the...
Readings: Isaiah 9.1-4 1 Corinthians 1:10-13,17-18 Mathew 4.12-23
The first reading today is from the Prophet Isaiah and is the same one that is used at Midnight Mass for Christmas. We...
Readings: Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 John 1:29-34
John baptizes Jesus and says that it should be Jesus baptizing John. John tells us that he knew that the Spirit would come...
Readings: Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 Acts 10:34-38 Matthew 3:13-17
How often in our lives we hope that God will come and save us—and then we find out that He does save us...
Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12
The Epiphany celebrates light coming into the world. For us Christians, that light is Christ and He changes darkness into light so that we can...
Today is the first Sunday of Christmas. It is a Sunday dedicated to the Holy Family of Nazareth. That is, the family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It is the model of every true Christian Family. Sociologically speaking, the family...