Today’s readings answer three very important questions about us Catholic Christians. They answer the questions: Who are we as Catholic Christians? What is our duty as Catholic Christians or disciples of Christ? And Why we are called to be disciples of Christ?
American Catholics celebrate Black Catholic History Month each November. The annual celebration began in 1990, and this year 2022, our Los Angeles Catholics family are focusing our attention on the “Holy Six” — the Black Catholics who ministered in the United States and who are currently under formal consideration for canonization.
Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great stillness because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and has raised up all who have slept since the world began… ” I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.” (From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday)