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Tuesday of Holy Week

Cardinal Dolan’s Homily on Palm Sunday, March 30, 2015.

Monday of Holy Week

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

These days before Palm Sunday and Holy Week always have me somber as I remember April 1, 1977, which that year was the Friday before Palm Sunday. On that day, my Dad dropped dead at work at fifty-one years of age.

March 25 | The Annunciation of the Lord

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Maybe it’s because so many of our readings from the Bible during Lent – – at Mass, or for us priests, deacons, sisters, and brothers, in the daily Divine office – – remind us of our moral obligation to treat the immigrant with dignity and respect; It could be due to St. Patrick’s Day last week, when we Irish gratefully recalled the open door given our starving and hopeful ancestors when they arrived here; Then again, perhaps it was last week’s feast of St. Joseph ,  as we recalled that Jesus was born away from home, to parents “on the move,” and that, soon after, St. Joseph had to flee as a refugee to Egypt, with Mary and the baby Jesus, to escape the wrath of the murderous regime of Herod; Come to think of it, it’s in the news a lot, with our political leaders in D.C. unable to deal effectively, fairly, and comprehensively with immigration reform, or with Governor Cuomo attacked for his promising proposal of the Dream Act to offer all our young people, even immigrants the chance for a college education; Or, maybe it’s just that I live here, in New York City, where daily I greet the recently arrived, some of our most reliable and hard working neighbors, and where so often I look upon the Statue of Liberty.

Kudos to Governor Cuomo! In his New York Pos t op-ed , “My agenda for NY opportunity,”  Cuomo expresses the need for the Education Tax Credit. Here is an excerpt: The ETC would expand options for families seeking additional choices in the grades before college.

“We need to show Jesus, whom we have just seen at Mass, to others who want to see Him. As Christians, we must not let Him or them down!” Cardinal Dolan’s Homily on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 22, 2015.

Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

March 19 Solemnity of St. Joseph

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent