In 1999, my wife, Jeannie, and I took a trip to the Holy Land. We discovered that it is true that visiting the Holy Land changes the way you read the...

Jesus’ words and actions with Judas seen in yesterday's reading occurred in a larger context—the context of serving love. Jesus made it clear that he was giving his disciples an example...

Today's reading from John inspires multiple reflections, falling as it does in the section unique to John's Gospel where Jesus met with his disciples on the brink of his betrayal. The...

Jesus’ final week was, among other things, a great Summing Up—his way of emphasizing one last time what really matters. In today’s reading, Jesus linked life (the seed) and light to...

John’s Gospel has always been my favorite. It was the first part of the Bible I read after professing my faith in Christ in 1963. I have read it many times...

The Passion narrative is filled with violence: Judas’s plot; a corrupt legal system; public humiliations of Jesus, along with a beating administered while in custody; and public torture and execution. Reading...

Throughout the Passion narrative we hear witness to God’s gift and call. Today I invite you to meditate on Luke’s version of the institution of the Eucharist. Here it is more...

Today’s reading provides another lens through which we are invited to see the Passion narrative. Paul wrote, “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus” as a...

Having empathy is a first step in the disciple’s way of generosity. Today’s reading begins, “Be gracious to me . . . for I am in distress, my eye wastes away...

We turn toward the readings from the Liturgy of the Passion, first to Isaiah’s witness to the Suffering Servant. Along with the psalm and epistle to follow, this reading works to...