Journey to Wholeness
The cow and the bear shall graze,
Isaiah 11:7
together their young shall lie down;
the lion shall eat hay like the ox.
For Isaiah’s audience, the image of a cow and a bear feeding together signified a new harmony transcending purity laws.… Read the rest
Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:60-69
… Read the restThen many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
John 6:52-59
Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me will live because of me.
John 6:57; NABRE
The Father gives life (zóé) to the Son without beginning or end.… Read the rest
First Sunday of Lent
Genesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15
Lent recalls the forty days of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, and the forty days of cosmic cleansing in the time of Noah’s Flood. … Read the rest
Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)
Hebrews 10:19-25
… Read the restTherefore, brothers, since through the blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary by the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, and since we have “a great priest over the house of God,” let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.