Scripture for Life: The title of this feast is superlative. The images we create for it are flush with symbols of royalty and high priesthood, greatness and grandeur. But the Gospel we hear today reflects none of that.
Scripture for Life: Break free of a guest list written in stone. This same old, same old is hardly different from serving leftovers week after week. What about a new guest list instead of new clothes and fancy foods?
"Wrinkles are a sign of experience, a sign of life, a sign of maturity, a sign of having made a journey. Do not touch them to become young," the pope said June 8 at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.
Scripture for Life: God’s plan in Jesus is far bigger than our imaginations. Today, let us not be afraid to face the tomb of old certainties and become thoroughly confused and, naturally, even a bit afraid.
Scripture for Life: The church's prayer this week leads us through a long and difficult process of watching Jesus be stripped of human power so that we can learn something about what divine power is.
Scripture for Life: In effect, the crowd who brings the woman to Jesus has acted like the people who carried their sick to be healed; in the attempt to damn her, they introduced her into the realm of grace.
Art: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel's "Stations of the Cross" paintings espouse Jesus' program of liberation in their images of oppression in Latin America, showing us how to bridge the gap between Jesus' era and our own.
Scripture for Life: Anyone who lives with passion, deeply committed to the cause of Jesus, will be tempted in the same ways he was. The trickiest thing is that temptations arrive in the camouflage of good ideas.
Scripture for Life: We can begin to create a different world by speaking less and listening more. The very act of listening is an admission that we need to see through others' eyes as well as our own.
