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Our faith rests on the reality of Jesus’ Resurrection. We base everything on the truth of the story. But we must call upon the Holy Spirit who is present to the Church to assist us with that faith.
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?
Saint Francis of Assisi was born into privilege and gave it up to embrace simplicity and poverty. In this era of opulence, could you do the same?
The servant of the song represents Jesus, but because we are in Jesus, the song is also about us. We too, serve as instruments of God’s salvation.
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 COVID-19 quarantine in much of the world invited us to look twice at what we took for granted. We’ve mourned many losses and promised to appreciate blessings when they resumed.
During these last days of Lent the Church offers us Isaiah’s Servant Songs as meditations on the person and mission of Jesus.
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.
Jesus knows what it is to suffer. His passion and death reveal to us that God can use anything–even the greatest evil and suffering–for a redemptive purpose.
In powerlessness freely accepted, Jesus modeled for us a new way of life, one that can disarm power when lived well.
