Ross Dizon

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 first and the greatest.   Like most of us, the disciples of Jesus, for sure, have their ambitions.  After all, they, too, have the right to be better....

Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed.  And we proclaim this, of course, one with Peter and all the Church. Peter gets to proclaim that Jesus is the Christ.  And the latter tells his disciples right away to speak about it to no one.  He then teaches them that...

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...

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,...

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.

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.

Jesus is the true bread from heaven that the Father gives us.  To eat this bread means to gain strength and to live forever.

Jesus is the bread of life that has come down from heaven. To go to him and to believe in him means to never hunger or thirst again. 

Jesus, like his Father, is attentive to our needs.  He does not fail to fill up those of us who hunger for what we lack. Those who were dying of hunger in the desert did not have to return to Egypt to fill up themselves.  For the one who had brought them out of...