“When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, ‘Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?’ But he turned and rebuked them” (Lk. 9:54-55). These are days, in […]
Learn more“Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you” (Lk. 8:39). “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people” (Matt. 4:19), from Matthew’s account of the calling of the first disciples. Or […]
Learn more“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth… All that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you” […]
Learn more“Now the whole earth had one language and the same words” (Gen. 11:1). The story begins on the dusty plain of Shinar, somewhere in the land between the rivers. The human race is in migratory mode, on the […]
Learn more“I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word” (Jo. 17:20). Easter is a “no holds barred” season: though it goes on for fifty days, […]
Learn more“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’” (Jo. 5:6). In our Gospel today, for the Sixth Sunday of […]
Learn more“You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’” (Jo. 13:33). Christian observance of the Easter season runs from the Day of […]
Learn more“The Father and I are one” (Jo. 10:30). Easter is a season, not just a day: fifty days, in fact, that take us from the Day of Resurrection through the Feast of Pentecost. The origin of the season […]
Learn more“Just after daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus” (Jo. 21:4). Easter is a season, not a day. Each year we get fifty days, not just one day, to […]
Learn more“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book” (Jo. 20:30). Easter is a season, not a day. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is such […]
Learn more“But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them” (Lk. 24:11). Our Vigil service this evening began with readings from the Old Testament: part of a liturgy traditionally seen as the Church’s […]
Learn more“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want” (Ps. 23:1). The image of the shepherd is tightly bound up with the story of Israel. The family of Abraham were shepherds, after all, bringing their flocks […]
Learn more“This one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14). Sports fans […]
Learn more“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink” (Jo. 7: 37-38). By my calculation, this is the twenty-eighth day of Lent: twenty-eight days into it, with twelve more to […]
Learn more“Lord, you have searched me out and known me…” (Ps. 139:1). “Know thyself”: this was saying inscribed upon the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi; an invitation to philosophic introspection and to the journey within. Who are we? […]
Learn more“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17). The Big Bang theory posits that the universe began with an explosion of energy, of heat and light, that expanded rapidly and eventually resulted […]
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