The Gospel passage read by our Church today on Thomas Sunday recounts two appearances of the risen Jesus (John 20:19-31). In the first appearance, Jesus reveals Himself alive to the disciples’ assembly, then in the second to Thomas, who was absent during the first appearance. Let us reflect a little on this salvific event. Why ...
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The Creativity of Baptism
The Spirit has inscribed upon each of us in our baptism that we belong to Him, to Him alone, for the building and flourishing of His Church and for the service of witness on earth. Creativity lies in faithfulness to what the Spirit has inscribed.
Read moreJudas' Way
The word recorded for us by Matthew about what Judas the betrayer did with Jesus in Gethsemane as a sign of his handing him over to the Jews: "Greetings, Rabbi!, and kissed him” (26:49), crushes me. Greetings and a kiss in the service of crime! It is the world's disgrace for love's eyes to be ...
Read moreNoah's Ark
The forty-day lenten fast existed to put our inner house in order; our house, meaning our hearts and lives in Christ, in all their details and intricacies. The fast, now concluded, was founded upon three things: asceticism, Word, and offerings. These are our provisions after the feast; rather, they are our "Noah's Ark" in this ...
Read morePascha is With You
Two days ago, I asked about what remains for us of Lent after we reach Pascha. My answer was that the spirit of Lent is our life which we spend with the power of Pascha. Christianity encompasses two dimensions of commitment, one communal and one individual. One does not cancel the other out, and the ...
Read moreGreat Friday
O Jesus, a world that looks at things from below, whose eyes are estranged from the transcendence of Your gifts, is unable to look upward. On the day they crucified You, they told You to come down from the Cross. They stipulated that Your descent be a sign of Your glory. Literally, they said: "If ...
Read moreGreat Thursday
Oh Jesus, I have read about the events of this great day in Your great Gospel. You were aware of everything that would happen to You; indeed in both Your silence and Your words, You were saying that You only "came for this hour". You ordered the preparation of the Last Supper. You rejected Judas' ...
Read moreGreat Wednesday
Oh Jesus, O God Who holds the end in His hand. Today, we have concluded the first three days of the Great Week. Each day has brought us benefits based on action and its opposite. On Monday, we stood before the fruitful Joseph and the barren fig tree. On Tuesday, we faced the five wise ...
Read morePalm Sunday
This is a day for all of us, young and old, to declare that we are with Christ, hoping to be accepted as members in His eternal kingdom. Our children with us are our expression that this is our upbringing and our legacy. Everything we carry with us, ourselves and our children, palm fronds and ...
Read moreJeremiah's Complaint
I read, with new amazement, “Jeremiah’s Complaint” which he had kept for his readers in his twentieth chapter. The prophets are men who belong to God. Flesh, their flesh, is a dwelling place for Him. They all have had words that open the present onto the time to come. Jeremiah's assignment was to deliver the ...
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