“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 […]
Learn more“But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20). St. Paul wrote the Letter to the Philippians to a small group of Christians who […]
Learn more