You may not know that one of the promises clergy & religious make upon entering their vocation is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (AKA Divine office.) This is a routine of prayers that they pray at various times throughout the day to make sure that they don’t lose sight of their relationship with […]
Unfolding John 5:1-18
Jesus healed people. This is the sort of no-brainer statement that ranks up there with “ice is cold” or “rocks are hard.” Even someone with the most superficial understanding of the Gospel knows that many of Jesus miracles in the Gospels involved healing (and a number of the miracles we still see today, particularly those […]
The Cross = a Broken Heart?
Today, the Church celebrates Good Friday. It seems odd to me to call the day Jesus suffered, died, and was buried “good.” Because on this day Jesus shed his blood, we have been rescued from sin and death, and we also know just how deep and wide the love of God for us really is that […]
The Greatest Rescue Mission of All Time
When Frozen came out last winter, I was a little late to get to see it (I didn’t actually watch the movie all the way through until about 6 months after it’s release. For a father of two little girls, this may be a serious sin!) I was duly impressed, and I can understand why so […]
Unfolding Scripture: Mark 15
Mark 15 presents us with the tragic sequence of events from Jesus’ trial up until His death and burial. Mark 15:1-5 begins with Jesus’ interrogation by Pontius Pilate. One of the interesting comments I’ve often read about Pilate is that he is presented in the Gospels as a sympathetic character in the midst of […]