Jesus is Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah. Yet he lords over no one; he serves and is the Good Shepherd who gives...
Ross Dizon
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Miracles, Prodigious Signs of the Messiah
Jesus preaches the Good News to the poor and works miracles for those who are sick and hurting. He is the Messiah Israel waits for. Miracles, wonderful deeds, spectacular events, both attract and frighten most of us humans. So, it does not come as a surprise that...
Beginnings in Eden and in the Desert
Jesus obeys to the point of death on a cross. He does so to lead us to God and to the beginnings in Eden and in the desert, and to make us all just, washed in the waters of new birth. Jesus stays in the desert for forty days, which sends us back, in the first place,...
Anger that Is Just and Constructive as Jesus’
Jesus brings in the kingdom of God and his justice. So, his anger blazes as he sees us looking out for just our own interests, not caring about those who are poor. A leper comes to Jesus, kneels down and begs him: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” The account...
Go around Towns and Villages as God Wants
Jesus has come so he may go around towns and villages and preach by words and by works, and as the Father shows him in prayer, the Good News. Before he makes up his mind to go around all of Galilee, Jesus goes off alone to a forlorn place to pray. He does so before...
