Jesus shows us how to live in the kingdom of God, that is, in God’s great human family. To be with us is who and what...
A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Accept, Take, and Eat and Drink
Jesus is Emmanuel, “God-with-us.” This means God is close to us; all that remains doing is for us to decide...
To Do Good like Jesus, the Messiah
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...
Greatest Proof of Love One Can Give
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...
Go with Jesus on His Way to Calvary
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,...
Supper for the Poor, Crippled, Lame, Blind
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...
Seek First, Yes, the Kingdom of God
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.
Price of the Peace of Christ Jesus
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...
True to Jesus and to His Words
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...
Greed, Root of All Kinds of Evil
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...
Trust in the Father and Not Worry
Jesus is absolute trust in the Father in person. Hence, disciples are to trust in the Father in the way that their Master does. Vincent says that Jesus is a man of the greatest prayer (SV.EN IX:326). That means Jesus is always before the Father in prayer...
Better and More than Other Things
Jesus has the words of life, and his flesh is true food and his blood true drink. To go to him is better and worth more than all things. It is better and more honest to say from the start what the text on Martha and Mary is about. To do so is to be fair to Luke...
