Jesus, our high priest, feels for us.  To say we are his means to share with those who are poor our goods.  What lesson is there that we can share with those who read or hear the parable of the rich man and Lazarus?  The parable does not mean to portray what will play...

Jesus on the cross is the power and wisdom of God. If we share in this power and this wisdom, we will be clever sons or daughters of light.  In the parable that we hear today, the master praises the dishonest steward for being clever. The master also points out that...

Loving us to the end as he dies on the cross, Jesus gives the greatest proof that God loves us.  Hence to exalt the Holy Cross is to exalt love.  Those who turn their weakness into strength might well give the greatest proof of their being creative. And it seems that...

Jesus has made up his mind to go to Jerusalem.  That is, he does not turn back in the face of death.  So, to go with him means to follow him on the way to death.  Big crowds go with Jesus as he travels to Jerusalem.  But quality interests him more than quantity.  Yes,...

Christ, self-emptying and lowly, is the one whom guests eat and drink at the Holy Supper.  All of them are poor; they cannot pay him back.  For the Pharisees, good Jews do not eat lunch, dinner or supper with sinners.  Maybe they think that to get close to those...

Jesus is the gate; those who go in through him will be saved. Their concern is to seek first the kingdom of God and his justice.

Christ Jesus is our peace. For he makes us one with God and each other through the cross. Hence, this peace comes at a great price, not of silver or gold, but of Christ’s body and blood.  As he teaches his disciples to trust God, and not wealth, Jesus seems to go...

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.  He wants us to be true to him and to his words; strange teachings of all kinds must not carry us away.  Last Sunday, we heard the teaching, “Take care to guard against all greed.”  But have we Christians been...

Jesus is the first among those who gladly give all they have and are for others’ sake.  Greed has no part in him and in those who are his.  Someone in the crowd asks Jesus for help to settle a family feud about inheritance.  He does not have a name and does not need...