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by Ross Dizon | Dec 25, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Son of God and the Brother of all men and women. To belong to his family means to keep in the heart his...
by Ross Dizon | Dec 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is born on the outskirts of Bethlehem, in a shelter for animals in bad weather. There, yes, is where to find...
by Ross Dizon | Dec 14, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the fullness of God’s visits to us humans to save us. The visits we pay to our neighbor should be like...
by Ross Dizon | Oct 25, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
The Son of the most holy God becomes flesh and stays at our house as a guest who saves. He wants us to repent. Jesus teaches that it will be difficult for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God. The Pharisees, for their part, consider tax collectors sinners that...
by Ross Dizon | Oct 18, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus personifies the attitude of publicans who do as the publican in the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. The parable shows that Jesus is not unfair at all toward the weak. He hears the needy of all kinds, the marginalized, the excluded. Among these, of...
by Ross Dizon | Oct 11, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus guarantees absolutely that God will secure justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him with steadfast faith. We know from Jesus’ example and teaching that God’s chosen ones are the poor. Christ, the Anointed with the Spirit, makes clear that his mission is...
by Ross Dizon | Oct 4, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is our peace. He breaks down, then, the wall of enmity among Jews, Samaritans and other peoples. Jews and Samaritans hate each other. Consequently, one group takes the other to be incapable of doing anything good. When such enmity prevails, a scorned person’s...
by Ross Dizon | Sep 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
We discover in Jesus the vision without which we perish demoralized. It is hard even for those who are faithful to keep faith alive and to take as norm the vision of the kingdom of God and his righteousness. As in Habakkuk’s case, what drives them to question faith...
by Ross Dizon | Sep 20, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is God's resounding “no” to indifference toward the needy. The parable of the unnamed rich man and poor Lazarus condemns indifference toward the poor and helpless. It is not that the rich man is explicitly unjust. Apparently, it does not bother him that...
by Ross Dizon | Sep 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus teaches us the creative and wise search first of the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Undoubtedly, the children of this world look for the power and glory of all the kingdoms of the world very shrewdly and in a creative way. To verify this, one only needs...
by Ross Dizon | Sep 6, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is one with us sinners. Just like his Father, he takes no pleasure in our death, but rather in our conversion, that we may live. Jesus is concerned about sinners, which shocks the Pharisees and the scribes. They complain, “This man welcomes sinners and eats...
by Ross Dizon | Aug 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus guides our feet into the way of the Kingdom of God. Great crowds follow Jesus who is on his way to Jerusalem. But quality is more important to him than quantity. Hence, he lays out his demands in a disconcerting way. First, Jesus demands that those who seek...