Scripture for Life: Tom Sawyer made his task such an attractive work of art that his buddies paid for a chance to join in. That's what Christ seems to be offering us today.
Scripture for Life: Today's feast invites us to admit our own frustrated desires for certainty in the midst of doubts or weakness of faith. The disciples didn't have all the answers. What they did have was a mandate.
Scripture for Life: The love Christ talks about is not primarily an emotion, but an embrace of our shared identity as creatures, human beings invited into the same life, the same depth, the same identity in God.
Scripture for Life: Are we there yet? No, and we won't be until the end. "There" happens when all is one in Christ and in the Father, and as long as there is life, we are on the way.
Scripture for Life: When Jesus the Good Shepherd says that he calls each sheep by name, he's saying that he knows each of them uniquely, loving their distinct gifts, talents, desires and limitations.
Scripture for Life: The disciples' carrying the sorrows of the world was a type of penitential rite — begging to see God's mercy in the midst of tragedy. This begins the liturgy Luke's Emmaus story suggests for us.
Scripture for Life: Easter proclaims that we, the motley communities of our family, neighborhood, parish, church and world, can live in such a way that others see wonders and signs of what can be.
Scripture for Life: On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the light of Christ's definitive victory over evil.
Scripture for Life: Unfortunately, the suffering described in Isaiah and Matthew is the lived experience of many people today because, sadly, injustice pervades every corner of our world.
