Lost and found
April 19, 2018
In our high-tech society, the Gospel for this fourth Sunday of Easter gives us an agricultural focus in the image of the Good Shepherd.
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It’s true what they said about me
April 11, 2018
The “two disciples” who begin our passage today have just made their eager trek back into Jerusalem to recount the “goings on” of their trek out of Jerusalem on Emmaus Road (a good album name?). As we know (from the verses preceding today’s passage), Jesus joined them and spoke with them for a long part of their journey, all the while either preventing them from recognizing him or deciding not to interrupt their kilometers-long blindness — a blindness resistant to the heart-inflaming truths He expressed about himself in Scripture. Could there possibly be a better Scripture class than this one was?
Victory in Christ
April 2, 2018
By Jesus’ humble, loving surrender of His life to the Father while hanging on a tree and by His glorious springing to life three days later, Our Lord conquered mankind’s greatest enemies: sin, Satan and death. Jesus crushed the competition. It was a monstrous defeat. It was a glorious victory.
The hidden glory
March 28, 2018
The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus is the defining event in our history. In that moment, humanity shared in Christ’s victory over death. The empty tomb on the first Easter allows us to faithfully proclaim that we believe in the “resurrection of the body and life everlasting” each Sunday, a certain truth that fills us with hope as we prepare for sanctification in this life for the next. It is this event that allows us to proclaim confidently with St. Paul, “O death, where is your sting!” (1 Cor 15:55).
Our Eastern Gate
March 20, 2018
Eight major gates give entry into the holy and ancient city of Jerusalem. The largest is the Eastern Gate, sometimes called the “Beautiful Gate” or the “Golden Gate.” It is unique among the historic gates because it is the only one that is completely sealed up, preventing entry.
For God so loved the world
March 7, 2018
We started Lent with the imposition of ashes and the prayerful challenge, “Repent and believe the Good News.”
Cleansing our temple
February 28, 2018
As each of the four Gospel evangelists provide an account of Jesus Christ cleansing the Temple, we recognize that it is a pivotal event in His ministerial life. John’s description provides a dramatic scene, as Jesus made a whip and drove out the money changers, those selling animals to be sacrificed, and even the animals themselves. Amid the turmoil, as Our Lord overturned tables, He shouted that His Father’s house should not be “a house of trade.”
The call of Mount Moriah
February 23, 2018
Today’s first reading about Abraham sacrificing his only son — the son of promise, the son who would carry the future of Abraham’s descendants to be as numerous as the stars or the sands on the seashore — may strike us as brutal, savage, primitive and shocking. A little background may cause the dark clouds that envelop this reading to dissipate.
Steadfast instead
February 14, 2018
Jesus invites us to follow Him, to imitate Him. Knowing this helps us to try to do so without becoming overly focused on the fact that there is something very different about Him. He is God.
