A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings

Groan while Yearning to Be Free

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 wants us to have.  Jesus heaves a groan as he heals a man who is deaf and cannot talk.  Such a groan may be a sign of his compassion.  It may also mean it...

Clean and Not Clean in the Eyes of God

Jesus is the one who sees God.  Hence, he cannot but be the eldest among many brothers and sisters who are clean of heart. Those God has chosen are not to add to what he commands or subtract from it.  Does not this make known that his commands must stay plain, clean,...

Go to Him Who Has the Words of Eternal Life

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

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.

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Catch the Good News of Jesus Christ

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Read the Signs of Jesus in Our Midst

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Set Free, out of Love, the Oppressed

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Deny, Slap, Beat, Crucify Jesus

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Bear Much Fruit Means Die with Christ

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Lift up the Son of Man on the Cross

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...

Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered

Adore the Father in Spirit and Truth

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...

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