Jesus is constitutive of the Christian community. Do we say and live this as St. Vincent? Moises makes clear what...
Ross Dizon
Sap of Life, Strength and Fruitfulness
by Ross Dizon | April 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah, Good Shepherd
by Ross Dizon | April 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Catch the Good News of Jesus Christ
by Ross Dizon | April 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Read the Signs of Jesus in Our Midst
by Ross Dizon | April 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Zealous for the House, the Kingdom, of God
by Ross Dizon | Sep 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus burns with zeal for the house, for the kingdom, of God. Needless to say, the disciples are to be as zealous as...
Foolish and Slow to Believe, and Afraid
by Ross Dizon | Sep 14, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus alone is Lord, the Most High, for there is no better and more lowly servant of all than he. Hence, to mistake...
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...
Witnesses of Jesus throughout the world
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,...
Intimate disciples of Jesus
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...