“For this command… is not too mysterious and remote for you. It is not up in the sky… Nor is it across the sea, No, it is something very near to you, already in your mouths and in your hearts; you have only to carry it out.” (Dt 30:11-14) Last week our scriptural reflection emphasized …
For thus says the LORD: Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms… (Is 66:12) We all love idyllic and fruitful scenes of nature. We all love images of prosperous and restful places. Since …
As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” (Lk 9:57-58) Jesus was always on the go. Not long after He was …
I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” (1 Cor 11:23-24) In the above quotation …
“[The Spirit] will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine…” (Jn 16:14-15) In the political state known as “communism” everything allegedly belongs to “the people” because the people make up the state and the state owns all. In this theory …
“In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.” (Rom 8:26) Prayer is not as easy a thing as one might think. Some say that it is only a “conversation with …
“And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me; that they may be brought to perfection as one…” (Jn 17:22-23) Some pagan philosophies, including Plato’s, have put forward a didactic legend that the human race began as …
‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father… And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.” (Rev 21:3, 5) We are never inclined to rejoice when someone that …
“Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people… The One who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” (Rev 21:3, 5) The Holy Trinity is a thoroughly self-sustaining communion of three divine persons. To say this is of course true …
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. ” (Jn 10:27-28) A close examination of our quotation from Sacred Scripture (above) seems to indicate a shifting metaphor. For if …