Posts by Tom Hoopes

At the Holy Land Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves a mosaic depicts four loaves. The fifth is in the tabernacle. God is good. God is so good, in fact, that

Here’s a shortcut to understanding the readings at each Mass, as applied to this Sunday’s readings, the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Old Testament: Crack the code. For the Old

Our family has been blessed for the past 16 years to be at parishes that provide Eucharistic processions on Corpus Christi Sunday. At St. Mary’s parish in New Haven, Conn., we would

We often feel that Christianity is not all it’s cracked up to be. This Pentecost, the Church provides a beautiful antidote to that sinking feeling, but it is easy to miss it.

Plato worried that the new media called “writing” would ruin our memories – and he was right. “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to

This Sunday is Ascension Sunday in most of the United States, and the Gospel  is the Great Commission from Matthew. You can go line-by-line through Jesus’ parting words and learn all you

May 25 is the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Sunday’s readings are a kind of Advent for the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is coming. The great Novena of the Church — nine days of

(Photo: Flickr Yuya Sekiguchi) St. Paul famously said that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, our faith is in vain. This Sunday’s Gospel shows that the same thing can

Augustine’s heart was restless until it rested in God. For me it was my legs, too. When I was a Freshman at the University of Arizona, I used to go on long

Christ’s passion is a good remedial lesson in the seven deadly sins. This Sunday, be on the lookout for all seven during the reading of the Passion — and lookout  for them