“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.”
May 3 — Jn 14:1-12
The marriage custom in ancient Jewish culture was very different from ours today.
March 1 — Mt 17:1-9
An unexpected large bill arrives in your inbox. The shower drain gets clogged. You almost forget an important birthday. You slip on the ice and strain your shoulder.
Once upon a time in college, an atheist friend of mine decided to disprove the existence of God. He devised a simple experiment: Setting a glassful of water on a table’s edge, he explained that if God were real, he would value my friend’s soul enough to prove himself by knocking over the glass or miraculously emptying it.
This Sunday provides us a with a long section of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, probably his most famous extended set of teachings.
Feb. 8 — Mt 5:13–16 “You are the salt of the earth … You are the light of the world,” we are told today. This Gospel text follows immediately after the Beatitudes, which we heard last Sunday.
Feb. 1 — Mt 5:1-12a
God has a special place in his heart for the lowly and the humble.
