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by Ross Dizon | Nov 16, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the King that God has raised. Hence, his kingdom is not from this world of lies. And he expects his...
by Ross Dizon | Nov 9, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, our Shepherd, leads us along the right path. He spreads clouds as cover and fire to light up the night. He...
by Ross Dizon | Nov 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus wholly offers himself to take away our sins. In this sacrifice shares the widow who gives all she has to live...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Ross Dizon | May 3, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus appoints his followers to be his witnesses. Are we so really and in a credible manner? Jesus tells the witnesses of his passion, death and resurrection: You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 26, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus wants us to be his intimate lovers, proven so through our keeping of his word. He seeks to share with us, through the Holy Spirit, his Father’s love and genuine peace. In the first place, Jesus affirms that to love him truly means to carry out his word. He...