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There is nothing more central to our Catholic life than the Eucharist.

Today we affirm a central tenet of our Catholic faith: that God is in fact a community of persons -- a family of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- bound together in love, freely giving that love to each other, to all creation, and to us his beloved children.

The Holy Spirit did not stop moving after the Pentecost event. The Spirit is God-in-motion, the Lord and Giver of Life propelling us in the direction of Christ and his grace.

We are called to pray for others, especially that they would be one with Christ.

Christ invites us to call on the Paraclete, the one we call the Holy Spirit to bring us Christ’s gift of peace.

Jesus had no problem seeing love of others as a commandment. That’s because this ability to love one another flows out of his love for us.

The voice of the risen Lord reminds us that we belong to God, and we shall never fall out of his hands. This is the graceful security we enjoy as members of Christ’s Body, the Church.

We have every reason to anticipate that the risen Lord will come to us right in the middle of our busyness and uncertainty, in a place where he promises to be our consolation and salvation.

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a day in which the Church gives us a golden opportunity to acknowledge our lack of faith, struggle to trust, and the burden of our human weakness and sin, whatever that may be. In turn, it is a day to receive the Lord’s mercy in abundance.

We all have our part in this sacred story.

At the start of Holy Week, may our Holy Communion with Jesus help us commend our suffering to God the Father, and bear our crosses with trust in the compassionate heart of God!

Jesus encourages us to be slow to judge and condemn, but eager to seek justice with compassion.

Lent is a time to stop wasting the inheritance given to us so graciously by the Father of Jesus Christ, our Savior. It is a time to come home to God.

God is patient, kind, and merciful with us, even when we are suffering.

Prayer changes everything because it sheds the light of Christ’s grace on everything.

These days are a gift, a graced opportunity to fall more deeply in love with God and to learn how to follow Christ more closely.

We must never be satisfied with the status quo — Jesus’ words are very clear: “Unless your holiness surpasses that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”

This week, Jesus adds one more group to the list of those he regards as blessed but we find hard to love. And it is our enemies.

Here is the recipe for happiness that will take us from here to eternity: if we rely on the grace of Christ, our Lord and Savior, we will have an inner joy and a peace that no one and nothing can take from us.

Today’s Liturgy of the Word poses the question: Where do we find God in our lives?