Jesus is the Anointed and Sent One of God, and there is no other.  It is clear he is so, for he goes about to do good.  Jesus goes about all Galilee to do good.  Yet when John hears in prison what Jesus does, he sends his disciple to ask him, “Are you he who is to...

Jesus is the vine, and his disciples are the branches.  This means disciples will have fruits only if they are one with him, and he is one with them.  John calls the Pharisees and the Sadducees “brood of vipers.”  He tells them that they must bear the fruits that show...

Jesus, the King and Lord, is near.  To put on this King and Lord means to go in with him into the joy of God’s kingdom. Today, we hear Paul spur on the Christians in Rome to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Christians in Ephesus get a similar bolstering; they are to...

Jesus, from the house of king David, is Messiah and King.  To rule with him, we have to stay steadfast to the end.  There are those who, to rule or to foster their interests, make use of any means.  They even use food as weapon of war or of politics. And there is no...

Loving us to the end, Jesus makes known what to be steadfast to the end means to win the reward of salvation.  Jesus tells his disciples that, since they suffer for his sake, their reward is great in heaven.  And in today’s gospel, he says to them that they...

The body of Jesus is the temple that human hands did not build.  It is the cause and the sign of the union of all God’s sons and daughters.  Today’s gospel says that the temple that Jesus speaks of is his body.  And this is a hint that he puts an end to division and...

Jesus gives us his body to eat and his blood to drink.  To be nourished by him is to pass from death to life, from the dark to the light. Sooner or later, we will pass from the land of the living to the place of the dead.  We will take, yes, the path of no return.  ...

Jesus makes known true worship that takes hold of our whole being and admits of no guile at all.  We learn from him to be truly godly.  Luke tells us from the start that the story of the Pharisee and the publican finds fault with the self-righteous.  These think they...

Jesus, the Suffering Servant, brings true justice.  He does not grow weary.  Nor does he rest till he brings justice to the earth. We of St. Vincent’s family pray, for sure, for the end of war in Ukraine and Gaza.  Day after day, we ask for justice for the innocent...

Christ Jesus preaches the Good News of peace to all.  To be his means to be a foreigner no more, but fellow citizen with all those who are his.  The foreigner, who sees that has been healed, lives by faith.  The other nine, in turn, for whom healing has also taken...