A friend gives me an amaryllis every Christmas. They bloom beautifully, though not always on Christmas — one was a Valentine amaryllis — and then die back. That’s the end of my luck with them. I put them in the basement, with some vague thought about planting the bulbs outside…

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If you were dying and someone asked you, “Do you have any last words?” what would your words be? The setting of today’s passage from John’s Gospel is the last supper, so we are hearing some of Jesus’ “last words,” the words the Evangelist thought were the most important of…

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