Fourth Sunday of Easter • Year C

At this time, the Word of God may focus our attention on what’s happening at the Vatican. The Word speaks to us of Jesus’ intimate relationship with us and our relationships with other people. “I know my sheep.” Jesus knows each of us very well. He knows our strengths and weaknesses, our successes and our failures, the choices we make whether they are healthy or sometimes sinful. That can be comforting and encouraging. It can also be scary for us when we may be ashamed of our actions. However, he takes us as we are. He sticks by us, he never abandons us because he loves us and wants to show us the way to a better life.

Welcome Pope Leo XIV, the First Augustinian Pope

Pope Leo XIV emerges from the Vatican for the first time since elected. He stands in pope attire with his hands folded across his chest, smiling with a twinkle of gratitude in his eye.

May 8, 2025 Dear Friends in Christ, What a wonderful day to be an Augustinian as we welcome our brother Robert Prevost, O.S.A. to the papacy as Pope Leo XIV! We’re overjoyed because of what we already know him to be, and what a gift he is to the Church and to the world at […]