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In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, Jesus is talking about the “kingdom of God,” a very different kingdom from kingdoms of worldly rulers. Jesus uses teaching images of seeds that sprout and grow of their own accord, and of the mustard seed, “the smallest of all the seeds on the earth,”…
Not too long ago I attended a wedding celebrated in the Hindu tradition. It was full of many symbolic actions. For example, the parents of the bride and groom were on the dais with the bride and groom throughout the ceremony, and the parents had certain parts in it —…
Several times a day I check out the activity at the bird feeder to see which birds are showing up today. It is always a guessing game: Will it be the several cardinal pairs, the rufous-sided towhee, the various sparrows and finches, the mourning dove, the red-bellied woodpecker or all…
Richard Rohr reminds us that the Cappadocian Fathers (Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea and Gregory Nazianzen) said: “Don’t start with the One and try to make it into Three, but start with the Three and see that this is the deepest nature of the One.” When we speak of…
Recently the readings after Easter included the one from the Gospel of John where Jesus tells Nicodemus that the “wind blows where it will,” cautioning him that he does not know where it comes from or where it goes. About that same time we were experiencing some blustery April winds,…
I find a poignancy in these words of our opening prayer today: … with the divine grace that was at work when the Gospel was first proclaimed, fill now once more the hearts of believers … ” The role of God as Spirit is to sustain the life that Jesus…
In the United States, the Solemnity of Ascension is celebrated today. The opening prayer for Ascension puts into words the deepest meaning of this feast: … the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow…
It’s Mothers Day, and so how wonderfully coincidental that our Gospel from John is about love. John’s Gospel is a love Gospel. A couple weeks ago we had a quotable passage from John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who…
When Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, who is searching for Jesus’ body at the tomb (John 20:17), Jesus tells her, “don’t cling to me.” That is, she cannot find him anymore in his Jesus of Nazareth body. Instead she is directed to go to the gathered community where she will…
There will be many, many people who won’t be receptive to our Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Easter precisely because of what Luke’s Jesus is talking about in it: bad shepherds. We all know people, some in our families, who have walked away because of what a priest, or…
