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Do we always end up betraying Jesus at some point? We are all sinners. We all need salvation, again and again and again. And so we come to the paschal mystery, the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
In this holiest of weeks, we are challenged more than ever to think about our own relationship with money and material goods. Are we in danger of letting it come between ourselves and our God or ourselves and our loved ones?
The tension between material possessions and the spiritual life has always been part of religious life. We see it in our own religious institutions and in our own lives.
The cross is before us now with its wordless challenge to love beyond death. Take some time this week to think about events in your own life that have given you an experience of Jesus’s command to pick up your cross and follow him.
In powerlessness freely accepted, Jesus modeled for us a new way of life, one that can disarm power when lived well.
Even after his conversion, Francis retains something of his antipathy for the Perugians, historical enemies of Assisi and the faction that imprisoned him in his fighting days.
In the Gospel of John, we have to wrestle with the fact that this good and holy man is in fact the human manifestation of the one, true God.
