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The baptism of healing and protection

Third Sunday of Easter Fr. Anthony Brankin

 

I always wondered why we have Baptisms on Holy Saturday night. This year we had four, other years we have had up to fifteen and maybe thirty Confirmations and First Communions. But what is the connection between the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday and the Sacrament […]

May 26th, 2016 | Tags: | Category: angels, atheism, Christian witness, death, Easter Season, family, Fr. Brankin, heaven, Holy Spirit, Liturgy, martyrs, Mass, Modern culture, prayer, resurrection, sacraments, Saints, sin, Virgin Mary | Comments are closed

We are judged on the merits of our lives

Second Sunday of Easter Fr. Anthony Brankin

 

The Sunday after Easter and the glow of from the Resurrection has not dimmed. Our meditations about the Resurrection of Jesus—the promise of life eternal, the hope of our own resurrection—the implications for our own lives have actually increased. God loves us so much that He would […]

May 19th, 2016 | Category: Christian witness, death, Easter Season, Fr. Brankin, heaven, Justice, mercy, Moral life, Penance, Purgatory, resurrection, sacraments, sin, suffering | Comments are closed

The Sacrament of the Sick is an extension of the Divine Mercy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Third Sunday of Easter Fr. Anthony Brankin

Every so often we are called to MacNeal Hospital or even County Hospital to anoint someone—to give them the Last Rites—as people sometimes call it. Now the majority of those whom we anoint at two in the morning or at eight in the evening are from parishes far […]

May 25th, 2015 | Category: death, Fr. Brankin, sacraments | Comments are closed
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