Good Friday When your child dies it is unnatural, out of the natural course of order. When your child dies, life is turned upside-down, topsy turvy, nothing makes sense anymore. When your child dies, there is no explanation possible, try though others might to give you one. When your child dies, you lose something priceless, […]
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Good Friday Gut-wrenching. Slowly the one you love is being torn apart, flesh ripped, tormented and tortured. It is too much to bear, too much for anyone to watch. You are in pain as you see his pain. Is it any wonder that you turn away, unable to watch. So hard sometimes to turn on […]
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Holy Thursday The sweet smell of incense fills the church as I follow behind the procession. Yet another Holy Thursday, another night to wait in vigil. Strains of the Latin hymn still resound in my head as I take up my place in the small improvised chapel. An hour is such a short amount of […]
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HOLY THURSDAY Each time we celebrate the Eucharist we are told, “Do this in remembrance of me.” What does it mean to remember? When we remember, we re-member, we put back together. That which was broken is made whole again. At funerals we re-member our loved ones. We share our stories and memories about the […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion Jesus appeared helpless, like a lamb being led to slaughter, and yet was he? Appearances can be deceiving. Was he even stronger in his weakness than those who beat him? He accepted suffering, taunts, blows without retaliating. Who is stronger, the one who returns blow for blow, jeer for […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion Peter, Peter, foolish, fickle man. How you protest your love and devotion. How you speak from your heart, your feelings, and let these emotions get the better of you. One minute you are promising to follow Jesus anywhere, a true promise inspired by your love; then less than twelve […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion “What is truth?” Pilate asks Jesus, and well he may, well might we ask the same in this day and age of relativity where everyone thinks they define their own truth. What is truth? Truth is relative in many ways. It is relative to the people and circumstances but […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion Chances are we know the pain of betrayal, whether small betrayals, like friends ditching us in order to be with other friends or breaking promises, or larger betrayals, the betrayal of infidelity, or betrayal on the job by those who take credit for our ideas or work. Judas betrayed […]
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Death, it comes to all of us, yet how we resist it. We want to put off the inevitable as long as we can. Jesus in his dying, taught us so much about living. In all of his suffering, he didn’t forget to think of others, to comfort the women who were grieving. He made […]
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Holy Week – Season of Passion On Palm Sunday we read from one of the three synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark or Luke. John is reserved for Good Friday. Each of these is similar in so many ways, different in others. Taken as a whole they can give us different glimpses into those last hours of […]
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