Peter was grieved because Jesus said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” John 21:17 In asking Peter three times if he loves him, Jesus brings to the fore in this encounter with Peter the three-fold denial of…[read more]
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be where I am, to behold my glory, which…[read more]
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Make them holy in the truth, your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I make myself holy that they also may be made holy in…[read more]
I am praying for them, I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. John 17: 9-10 A few days ago I was listening to a radio podcast in which a…[read more]
The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered each to your own home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said this to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but be…[read more]
Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Amen, amen, I say to you when you were young you girded yourself and walked where you would,…[read more]
And as he was blessing them, Jesus withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. they worshipped him, and returned with great joy to Jerusalem. They stayed constantly in the temple blessing God. Luke 24: 51-3 In a homily which he offered on this feast of the Ascension in 2013, Pope Francis pointed out…[read more]
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.” Acts: 17:23 Even as a…[read more]
I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. 1 Cor. 15, 1 Where do we stand and what must we stand by? Today’s reading from 1 Corinthians challenges us with a most fundamental question. Paul tells the Corinthians, who…[read more]
Indeed, the hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God. And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me. John 16: 2-3 It is often said that history is written by the winners. Protagonists and antagonists are largely…[read more]
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