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Last week, we heard about how Christ, the Son, is in the Father, and how the Father is likewise in the Son, and I preached about how this reveals the Trinitarian nature of God, and also the Trinitarian nature of Christ’s mission as well as the Trinitarian nature of the life to which, in Christ,…

No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. These words, and indeed this entire passage, are very Trinitarian in character. As Christians we of course believe in the Trinity, and indeed the truth of the Triune nature of God is so indispensable that…

I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly. This, of course, is what a shepherd does for his sheep. His task is to pasture them, to provide for them, to protect them. And you can see just how important the shepherd is to the survival and prospering of his sheep if…

According to legend, there was a city named Silene in Libya, next to which was a stagnant and deadly pond in which lived a dragon, who would rise up out of the pond and by his breath poison the entire country. To appease the dragon, the people of the city gave him every day two…

Comenzando por Moisés y siguiendo con todos los profetas, les explicó todos los pasajes de la Escritura que se referían a él.

The name of St. Thomas, on account of this famous episode, is always for us connected with doubt. It is as though we have been so conditioned to make the mental jump from the name of Thomas to Doubting Thomas almost without thinking, and surely there is something unfair about that. Yet at the same…

Today, we stand in the aftermath of something remarkable. Of course, the events to which we have already been witness this week are even in their own right remarkable – on a merely human level we have seen the drama of betrayal and suffering and death, the anguish of a grieving mother, the disappointment of…

Tonight Jesus stands on the brink of his Passion, Esta noche, Jesús se encuentra en el umbral de su Pasión, and knowing this, sabiéndolo having loved his own in the world to the end, habiendo amado a los suyos que estaban en el mundo hasta el extremo, he leaves them with a great testament of…

We have just heard St. Matthew’s account of our Lord’s passion, from his entry into Jerusalem to his death and burial. It is an account that, however familiar it might be to us, yet moves us again and again to compassion for this innocent man, cruelly tortured and put to death by the very ones…

 One may well sympathize with the suffering that Mary and Martha, to say nothing of Lazarus, are left to endure during this episode. You can imagine how things must have gone, how Lazarus must have fallen ill, how, in spite of the care of his sisters, his condition must have dangerously worsened, and of how…