How far can we follow Jesus today? Perhaps not as far as we’d aspire to, but we can still offer Christ our presence and our patience at the foot of the cross.
The Triduum will engulf and clarify us. For we are the people who engage in these liturgies. We are they who dare to lift the bread and the wine to our lips, who presume to wait and watch, who risk suffering, running away, repenting and sorrowing, knowing that we are Christ’s at a level much deeper than words.
As we move through Holy Week, will we approach Christ’s death on the cross as the payment of a debt owed to God, or as God’s extravagant gift and foolish gamble of love?
Both Eucharist and foot-washing call us to expose our most vulnerable selves before others, and to believe that we are not going to be simply accepted but treasured.
Life doesn’t always hand out trophies. At the outset of Holy Week, let’s claim–and cherish–the greater prize of consolation.
Whether we live in the kingdom of violence or God’s kingdom of Love depends on who we listen to: The mob, or the dreamer.
Once upon a time there was a man and wife and who were expecting a baby. They had to make a trip to another town
As we approach the first day of Spring, can we detect a God at work below the surface of the earth?
We can even be consumed by rage or by fear. But Christ comes along, invited or not, recognized or not, just like the sunrise comes. Like the prickly old bottle brush pine needles, we are often not very helpful to the process.
What notions of sin prevent us from welcoming little children or receiving the kingdom of God?