Tagged Sunday’s Readings

Jesus becomes what we are and lays down his life to pay our debt and claim our hearts.

Is not faith a form of seeing, a way of touching, and a kind of deep hearing?

Life begins at this moment, the moment when Christ is known and loved as the one who has conquered death.

Looking to Jesus as he rides on the colt, the crowds feel a deep and ancient yearning for vindication.

The life of Christ transmitted by the Spirit into one’s “inward being,” into the “secret heart,” is a life of beneficent purgation.

The people had food, but they deemed it miserable. Rejecting what fell from heaven, they complained of having “no food and no water.”

The heavens above, the earth beneath, the waters under the earth and all that dwell therein bear witness to the light.

The single ancestor of a multitude of nations is himself a sign of the singular fulfillment of human history and all creation in Christ.

The fire of chariots and horses, the fire and smoke upon holy mountains, the white light suffusing the garments of Christ, all witness to the light of the World.