Today's Readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112625.cfm As we reach the final days of the liturgical year, the Church invites us to lift our eyes toward the ultimate realities: Christ’s return, the purification of the world, and God’s unshakeable plan for His people. Fr. Chris reminds us that the Scriptures, the Catechism, and the Church-approved Marian apparitions all speak with one voice: we are already living in the “last hour” (CCC 670), and yet God’s mercy remains our refuge and our hope.

Father Anthony reflects on the steady, sheltering love of John 10:11–16, where Jesus speaks in the plain, luminous language of the fields and folds—yet reveals a mystery large enough to hold every fear we carry: “I am the good shepherd.” He lingers on the contrast Jesus draws with piercing simplicity: not the hired hand who serves only while it’s easy, who flees when danger gathers and leaves the sheep to be scattered, but the Shepherd who belongs to the flock—and whose belonging is proved not by words, bu

Father Anthony reflects on the mystery proclaimed at the opening of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word.” He explores how Christ is not only present at creation but is creation’s meaning—the eternal Word through whom all things were made, who enters the world not with force but with humility and love.