My Part in the Passion
Monday, April 18th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on My Part in the PassionHoly Week begins with the reading of the Passion narrative on Palm Sunday, when people in the church take different parts, such as the narrator, Christ, and the crowd. If we use that taking of parts as a template for ...
Tears of the Lord
Saturday, April 9th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Tears of the LordThe story of the raising of Lazarus comes near the end of the public life of Jesus. Throughout his ministry, Jesus had revealed the compassion of his Father by bringing freedom to people who had been imprisoned by illness, blindness, ...
Standing Firm
Monday, April 4th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Standing FirmIn chapter 9 of St. John’s gospel, Jesus and his disciples come upon a beggar who’d been blind from birth, an object of pity and perhaps scorn for his whole life. But by the end of the chapter, this man ...
On Transfiguration Mountain
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on On Transfiguration MountainOne day on the Mountain of the Transfiguration --- so named because of the event that happened there as described in Matthew, ch 17 --- Peter, James, and John saw something in Jesus that they'd never seen before. They’d known ...
