Journey to Wholeness
Whoever receives you receives me,
Matthew 10:40
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Whoever believes in me
believes in the one who sent me.
I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.”
Behold the Suffering Servant and the Man of Sorrows: betrayed at the table, yet steadfast in love.… Read the rest
In the depths of exile and despair, God whispers: “I will never forget you”—a promise fulfilled in Christ’s life-giving love.… Read the rest
… Read the restSome Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
The concept of Logoi in the Logos invites us to see ourselves as unique words of God, spoken through Christ, the eternal Word, and called to live in harmony with his divine will.… Read the rest
… Read the restIn those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
… Read the restThen Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses.
… Read the restThen Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”