PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Jerusalem: Place of Suffering and of Triumph We know from the school of life that not every day is a day of joy and bliss: there are also gloomy days of suffering, of disappointments and failure. But today, on Palm Sunday “of the Lord’s Passion,” we are told […]
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Saturday of 5th Week in Lent Gathering What Is Scattered At a time of the purifying trial of the exile, Ezekiel preaches God’s utopian dream: Israel will be gathered into one: one nation, one land, one sanctuary, ruled by one shepherd and servant king under one God in a covenant of peace. After the […]
Friday of 5th Week in Lent Sign of Contradiction Jesus, the Son of God, showed in his life and actions that he was no ordinary human being, even in the face of contradiction. Christians, sons and daughters of God without a capital s or d, who take their faith seriously will also meet contradiction. […]
Wednesday of 5th Week in Lent The Truth Will Set You Free — Believe Like Abraham Persons who trust in God fight enslavement to sin. In the face of abuse of authority, persecution or coercion of any kind, even of tradition or of the law, they retain their inner freedom. When they hear […]
Wednesday of 5th Week in Lent The Truth Will Set You Free — Believe Like Abraham Persons who trust in God fight enslavement to sin. In the face of abuse of authority, persecution or coercion of any kind, even of tradition or of the law, they retain their inner freedom. When they hear […]
Tuesday of 5th Week in Lent Look Up to Christ An incontestable truth is that only faith saves. For the Jews wandering in the desert, faith in God’s power – presented here in the form of a bronze serpent – will save the rebellious people of God. The Pharisees have to accept Christ in […]
Monday of 5th Week in Lent Do Not Condemn God Forgives The first reading is an addition from a later period to the Book of Daniel. Probably Shushanna (Lily) stands for faithful Israel. And so, in the form of an allegorical tale the story comments on the faithfulness of the pious Jews to Yahweh, […]
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Look First into Your Own Heart When they have sinned, especially when grievously, some people are afraid that God is out to catch them, like a policeman who has to implement the law. Today we learn from Jesus that God goes beyond the law, for he forgives and keeps forgiving. […]
Saturday of 4th Week in Lent Sign of Contradiction It is hard for a person who “has been seduced by God,” as Jeremiah says, to be rejected by the very community to which one has dedicated one’s life and before which one bears witness to the spiritual. He is a source of division. So […]
Friday of 4th Week in Lent The Suffering Servant Men and women who claim to know God a bit and to live consistently as his sons or daughters, are queer and bothersome to unbelievers as well as to those who take their religion as a set of duties or religious rites. There is no […]