One sympathizes with Jesus in our Gospel today, looking out upon the crowds of the world and seeing them troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. All it takes is a glance at the morning or evening news to realize that our world still needs Christ and his appointed shepherds, perhaps now more than ever.
The feast of Corpus Christi brings with it an incredible variety of expressions of belief in and love for Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist.
“It is not good for the man to be alone,” God said of Adam in the garden, before the creation of Eve (Gen 2:18). But it is fair to ask, “Why was it not good?” After all, everything God created up to that point was called “good.”
May 10 — Jn 14:15-21
Christ in this second-to-last Sunday of Easter makes a grand promise to his disciples and to us.
Have you ever spent considerable time looking for something that was right in front of you all along? It’s quite amazing how easily we can fail to see the obvious, especially when it is staring us in the face.
“Peace be with you.”
These words of Jesus, spoken to the Apostles after his Resurrection, capture for us exactly the spirit with which we can and should experience this Easter season.
“Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark and saw the stone removed from the tomb.”
I have a question for you. Why was the stone removed from the tomb?
March 22 — Jn 11:1-45
Imagine what it would have been like to be Lazarus in the days following our Sunday Gospel reading, wherein Jesus raised you from the dead. It’s one of my favorite things to ponder.
“One thing I know, I was blind and now I can see.” This simple line in the Gospel for this Laetare, or “rejoice,” Sunday cuts through a Gospel filled with human complexities and frustration.
The encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman begins with the real experience of human weakness: Jesus is tired, hungry and thirsty. Why was Jesus sitting at the well when the woman came? Because he was “tired from his journey.”
