The True Vine If we admire nothing about Jesus except that he was a superb observer of people and nature and that he was an equally superb storyteller, we will have much to admire. Sheep, vines, wheat, corn, sowing, harvesting, salt, foxes, snakes, coins – you name it, and Jesus could brilliantly work it…
The Good Shepherd Today’s Gospel of that Good Shepherd reminds us of the four ways we live with these new spiritual genes. WE are those who hear and recognize his voice; He knows us; we have chosen to follow him. Hearing and following means being attentive to God’s word and teaching and responding in…
Jesus walks with us This Sunday we experience another appearance of the risen Lord to two of his friends and followers. These two disciples are walking to Emmaus. They are leaving Jerusalem and have their back to place where their dreams were shattered. This is an image and symbol of the Pilgrim Church which…
Jesus, I Trust in You! On April 30, 2000, Pope St. John Paul II designated the second Sunday after Easter to be a celebration of Divine Mercy. This is the day which the Church proclaims that Jesus, “the first and the last,” whom we put to death by our sins, comes through our locked doors…
Christ Indeed From Death is Risen Today, in the joy of Our Lord, Jesus Christ’s resurrection, we remember St. Mary of Magdala, who came “to the tomb early in the morning while it was still dark” to do the work of unfinished mourning. She honored and anointed the rejected, wounded, and crucified body of…
The Suffering Servant In today’s readings we experience Jesus, as the suffering servant who brings God’s love to the human family. The most powerful reason for Jesus’ death is to fill the human spirit with God’s love. Out of death has come life, the wondrous paradox, which the world does not understand. Jesus not…
The New Covenant Jesus Has Made With Us. In today’s Gospel, Jesus announces that the “hour” has come. When he is lifted up from the earth, he will draw all to himself. Jesus has chosen to strip himself of his divinity and become human like us so that we would know the great love…
Jesus is the Light that Has Come Into the World The Gospel is so clear today that Jesus does not come to us to condemn us but to save us by his own life and love. This is no angry God nor a God who would ever break His covenants. The scandal is that…
Jesus’s Authority In today’s Gospel we read about how Jesus overturned the tables of the merchants and the moneychangers in the Temple at Jerusalem. In order to understand the relevance of Jesus’ action, we must learn more about the activities that were going on in the temple area. Worship at the Temple in Jerusalem…
The Transfiguration of the Lord Every year on the second Sunday of Lent, we are offered the subject of Jesus’ transfiguration. The scene is set in a secluded place, on a high mountain where Jesus led three of his disciples. The transfiguration was an extraordinary spiritual experience in which Jesus tried to convince that…