Christ on the cross is the last of all and the servant of all. He puts to shame all those with ambitions to be the...
A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Groan while Yearning to Be Free
by Ross Reyes Dizon | September 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Clean and Not Clean in the Eyes of God
by Ross Reyes Dizon | August 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Go to Him Who Has the Words of Eternal Life
by Ross Reyes Dizon | August 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Jesus is the fullness of the law and the prophets. To go to him means to hear words of eternal life and to know the Holy One of God.
Live Forever in Union with Jesus
by Ross Reyes Dizon | August 14, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Jesus gives us his flesh to eat and his blood to drink. To eat his flesh and to drink his blood means to have life and to live forever.
Proclaim that Jesus Is the Christ
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Sep 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed. And we proclaim this, of course, one with Peter and all the Church....
Groan while Yearning to Be Free
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Sep 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the one who makes us truly free. He cannot but groan as he sees that we do not yet enjoy the freedom he...
Sap of Life, Strength and Fruitfulness
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Apr 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the true vine. He gives the branches that remain in him the sap that gives them life and strength and makes them bear plenty of fruit. Jesus uses the allegory of the vine and the branches. He does so since he wants to make clear how his disciples should...
Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah, Good Shepherd
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Apr 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah. Yet he lords over no one; he serves and is the Good Shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. A ruler among Jesus’ own should not at all be like a ruler among the Gentiles. The latter lords it over others. The former, on...
Catch the Good News of Jesus Christ
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Apr 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
The one who has risen is the same Jesus of Nazareth that the disciples have known, loved and followed on the roads of Galilee. To be his witness means to see to it that other folks catch the Good News. Those who make up a group can easily catch each other’s fears or...
Read the Signs of Jesus in Our Midst
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. To believe in him means to know how to read, to grasp, his many signs in our midst. We read, as we come to the end of today’s gospel, “Jesus did many other signs.” So then, we can take it that his rising from the dead is one of...
Set Free, out of Love, the Oppressed
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Mar 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Christ is risen! This goes to show that to go from here to there to preach the Good News to the poor, to cure the sick and to set free the oppressed, to love, is to please God. God anoints Jesus with the power of the Holy Spirit. And he, then, goes about to do good...
Deny, Slap, Beat, Crucify Jesus
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Mar 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, in life and in death, is one with those who are poor, who have no power, whom others cast out. Hence, we cannot but deny him if we turn our backs on them. We read that many give false witness against Jesus before the Sanhedrin but that they do not agree in what...
Bear Much Fruit Means Die with Christ
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus loves others to the end, to being lifted up on the cross. His death proves true that the grain of wheat that dies cannot but bear much fruit. Those who die with him bear much fruit also. Most of us, if not all, want to bear much fruit, to succeed as best as we...
Lift up the Son of Man on the Cross
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Mar 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Those in power lift up Jesus on the wood of the cross. In letting them do so, he proves true his word that God so loves the world that he gives his only Son, so that those who believe in him may have eternal life. The Lord tells Moses to lift up on a pole a serpent...
Adore the Father in Spirit and Truth
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Feb 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus shows us how to adore the Father in Spirit and truth. To learn from him, then, means to keep the true religion. At Sinai, God tells the Israelites that they are not to adore other gods. Yet they later adore a molten calf. And they hail it as Israel’s god that...