Sunday's Readings

The Light of Christ is with us and in us, and thus everything has changed, though under the aspect of hope.

In meditating on the Baptism of Jesus, we do well to meditate on our own. 

In baptism we meet the grace of the Christ, the energy of Christ, the power of Christ, the unadulterated reality of Christ, and from that reality a new life begins.

“The wolf shall live with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . and a little child shall lead them.”

“Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”

When human shepherds fail the flock of God, judgment comes.

Joy is a neglected necessity. Lift up your hearts! Even in silence, the heart may sing and rejoice, and live in hope and trust. Joy has come in Christ. He lives forevermore. Go on in trust and hope, and dance before the Lord.

The Lord will shine in his holy Church. The Lord will live in homes and communities. The Lord will take his seat in the temples of human hearts. Although waiting to attain the full glory of the Lord, a measure of it is already present. Go on in hope.

We are like Zacchaeus, who, though hearing well, could not see Jesus. What are we to do and how are we to keep watch? Doing his very best, Zacchaeus climbed a sycamore tree.

No right prayer, therefore, will sound like this: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income”