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“The eleven disciples went to Galilee … When they saw him, they worshipped, but they doubted.” The Gospel begins with these words (Matt 28:16-17). How can the disciples still be doubting, even as Jesus gives them their great commission, to “make disciples of all nations”? Well, for Matthew — and…
As we approach Pentecost, we listen this Sunday to a tender Jesus saying farewell to his disciples (John 14: 18-21). We’ll hear many words about the love bonds between the Lord and us, the intimacy of the God-and-us union. An advocate will be sent to be with us, to be…
I enjoy doing literacy work with people whose first language is not English. A challenge of learning English is that many of our words have multiple meanings, and many words and phrases are not meant to be understood literally. English speaks in metaphors, figures of speech, proverbs, hyperbole, idioms. Liturgical…
Notice three intertwined images in Sunday’s Gospel about the Good Shepherd. There is the image of the sheep, who have such an intimate relationship with the shepherd that they can pick out his voice from among others and follow only him to safe pasture. There is the image of the…
And he said to them … was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? The disciples who met Jesus on the road and heard this question did not expect the Messiah to die. Indeed, why Jesus had to die is a question…
Why does the risen Christ, who appears to Thomas in Sunday’s Gospel, appear with His wounds instead of appearing in dazzling robes like the Transfigured Jesus? Jesus of Nazareth as fully human would have been wounded, just like we are, just from living a human life. I expect he spoke…
No one saw the resurrection. What Mary of Magdala and Peter and John saw in our Gospel today was an empty tomb. We so want more proof than an empty tomb. In our humanness, we want to cling to the historical body of Jesus instead of embracing the risen body…
Today we gather together to herald with the whole Church the beginning of the celebration of our Lord’s Paschal Mystery. This “purpose statement” for Holy Week is from the opening prayer of today’s Mass. The “paschal mystery” we celebrate is the suffering, the death and the resurrection of Jesus, but…
Today our Hebrew Scripture is the end of the famous passage from Ezekiel 37, where dry bones come together. It is paired with John’s Gospel account of the raising of Lazarus. Ezekiel, however, was not prophesying about the resurrection of dead people. His image of newly inspirited “dry bones” was…
This Sunday’s Gospel is about the healing of a blind beggar. The story has its humorous moments in some of the cheeky comments made by the beggar. The educated, elite and powerful Pharisees interrogate him to find out who dared heal him on a Sabbath, a sinful violation of the…
