Jesus alone is Lord, the Most High, for there is no better and more lowly servant of all than he. Hence, to mistake...
A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Set Free, out of Love, the Oppressed
by Ross Dizon | March 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Deny, Slap, Beat, Crucify Jesus
by Ross Dizon | March 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Bear Much Fruit Means Die with Christ
by Ross Dizon | March 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Lift up the Son of Man on the Cross
by Ross Dizon | March 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Rumors, No; Intimate Knowledge, Yes
by Ross Dizon | Sep 7, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed. To know and confess him so is to go beyond rumors; it is to live and...
Gestures and Words That Heal and Proclaim
by Ross Dizon | Aug 31, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus opens our ears and makes loose the strings of our tongues. He enables us to make gestures that heal and speak...
Fullness par excellence and unequaled
by Ross Dizon | Jul 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In Jesus dwells all the fullness; those who treat the helpless with mercy are surely partakers of his fullness. “And who is my neighbor?” asks a scholar of the law who wants to justify himself. He is also one of those experts who like to test Jesus. They think they...
Credible witnesses of the Gospel
by Ross Dizon | Jun 28, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus has the credible words of eternal life. We believe in him. Are we credible? Those who hear Jesus proclaim the Good News are amazed at his credible words of grace. He teaches with authority. He wants us to be credible also. The phrase “in pairs” indicates...
Disciples to the bitter end
by Ross Dizon | Jun 21, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the good Teacher. He invites us to be his disciples. Jesus is resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem with his disciples. There, he will suffer greatly and die on the cross. The specter of a violent death does not make him turn back. Much less does...
Hidden still is Jesus’ messiahship
by Ross Dizon | Jun 14, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is God’s Christ. His being so remains hidden, however, from those who lack compassion. Jesus backtracks. He keeps hidden once again his being the Messiah no sooner than he has revealed it through Peter’s confession of faith. The Teacher directs his disciples...
Shocking without any doubt
by Ross Dizon | Jun 7, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, the embodiment of God’s shocking forgiveness, provides us with the opportunity to love with abandon. It is shocking to Simon the Pharisee that his guest lets a notorious sinful woman approach him. He doubts, therefore, that Jesus is a prophet. Simon and the...
Troubled unto a troubling death
by Ross Dizon | May 31, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Human misery leaves Jesus troubled, and he seeks that other people’s miseries leave us likewise troubled. The disciples and a large crowd accompany Jesus to Nain. A large crowd from Nain is with a widow at her only son’s funeral procession. The stage is set for a...
Generosity that is Eucharistic and priestly
by Ross Dizon | May 24, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Dying on the cross, Jesus consummates his generosity. He thus stands out as the most compassionate of all, and the one and only supreme mediator between God and us. How admirable Jesus’ generosity! Though rich, he becomes poor for our sake, so that by his poverty...
Revelation in its fullness, love that is limitless
by Ross Dizon | May 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the fullness of God’s revelation, and we Christians are to make Jesus known. We sometimes try so hard to explain Christian revelation that we end up understanding it even less. More deplorable still are the excommunications churches decree solemnly against...
Surprises and more surprises
by Ross Dizon | May 10, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus does not cease to surprise. He uses surprises to teach us everything, through the Holy Spirit, and to guide us to all truth. What a surprise of surprises surely for the disciples to see their Teacher alive after his crucifixion and burial! His entry into the...