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As we read this famous passage from John’s gospel, we can see that the crowd wrestling with how to respond to these striking words of Jesus. For context, we must remember that the people have sought out Jesus with great eagerness. They were there, if we recall the first part of this chapter, when Jesus…
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In our first reading, Moses goes up a mountain to meet God. And when he gets there, God reveals himself, showing to Moses his ineffable glory, revealing his name and declaring himself to be merciful and gracious, rich in kindness and fidelity. This encounter of Moses, the man, the creature, with God, the infinite, the…
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On this great feast of Pentecost, which we anticipate joyfully every year as the crown and completion of the Easter season, we remember and celebrate what is, without any doubt, among the greatest of gifts ever given to the Church, namely the gift of the Holy Spirit, who was, after Christ’s ascension, as Christ himself…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Comenzando por Moisés y siguiendo con todos los profetas, les explicó todos los pasajes de la Escritura que se referían a él.
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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…
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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…
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