Jesus will come back in glory to take to heaven those who are his own. They love like him as they look ahead to his...
A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Fire up Our Whole Selves with Love
Jesus makes known by words and deeds that we cannot love God without loving our neighbor. We Christians seek to fire...
Slaves in the Same Way as Jesus
Jesus takes the form a slave and becomes like us. We who seek to follow him are to become lowly slaves in the same...
Gifts of Christ Who Has Gone up to Heaven
Jesus Christ goes up to heaven and gives gifts to men and women. He wants them to grow up fully and be wholly human as he. We ask our Father in heaven many things. And the good things we ask for are summed up in his gift of the Holy Spirit (Lk 11, 13). Hence, this...
Wait for Jesus Christ to Come Back
Jesus, who came to the world from the Father, now leaves the world to go back to the Father. True Christians cannot but wait for him to come back and take them with him. In Mt 28,16-20, Jesus gives to the eleven apostles the task to make disciples of all nations. He...
Upset, Dismay, Annoy, Distress
Jesus is the peace between natives and foreigners, whites and blacks, men and women. One, then, need not be upset by the other. Jesus says good-bye at length to his disciples. For he wants them to keep their faith in him; he does not want trials to upset them. No,...
Distinctive Mark of Christ’s Disciples
Jesus is the proof that God loves us. Sent by God, he teaches us to love. He makes love the Christians’ distinctive mark and the means of salvation. Judas leaves so as to carry out fully the betrayal. And this treasonous leave is a distinctive sign that Jesus’ hour...
Mind and Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus and the Father are one and of one mind and heart. And to be a Christian means to have Christ’s mind and heart. Jesus walks about in the temple area on Solomon’s Porch or Colonnade. It is a place many people go to, especially in winter. For there, due to a...
Burden and Sorrow of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus is God-with-us. He stays with us all along the way that we travel. He finds bearable the burden that we turn out to be. The disciples cannot haul in the net due to the huge number of fish caught in it. But surely, it is a burden that makes the fishermen...
Palpable, Touchable, Visible, True
Jesus makes palpable God, whom no one has seen or touched. True disciples do not rest till their Teacher is palpable to them. Jesus knows that when he shows up risen, his disciples will think they see a ghost. They will want him to be palpable. That is why he has...
Live and Die as Jesus Christ Did
The risen Jesus is at God’s right hand and intercedes for us. His love enables us to live and die as he did. There are in the New Testament paradoxical teachings. These ideas, for instance, strike us as odd: to die is to live, loss is gain, to serve is to rule,...
Palms of Martyrdom, of Witness
Jesus is the faithful witness and the King of martyrs. To welcome him means to follow him to the end with palms in our hands. Of the four gospel writers, only John mentions palms. Matthew and Mark speak only of “branches.” Luke, for his part, says nothing at all...
