Jesus, our Shepherd, leads us along the right path. He spreads clouds as cover and fire to light up the night. He...
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by Ross Dizon | December 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
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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 | Oct 26, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus embodies the one who created us, men and women, in his image, after his likeness. Rightly does he tell us,...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus alone clothes the naked and fills those who are empty by sharing with them his mission to clothe the naked and fill those who hunger and thirst for justice and mercy. Peter, who is fishing naked—do those who have fishing as their occupation work naked...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 29, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus commands us to get out of all confinement to take part, enabled by the Spirit and with courageous faith, in the mission of forgiveness and peace, of evangelization and healing. Though the doors of the house are locked, Jesus manages to enter. He stands in the...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus wants us to have a faith that is firm as a rock and immense as the sea. This faith, made alive by love, prompts Mary of Magdala to go to Jesus’ tomb at the first opportunity. Due to the same faith, this female disciple stays outside the tomb weeping, after...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 15, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Leading fearful disciples, who are also slow to understand, Jesus heads towards Jerusalem to face with courage his painful fate. Courage does not mean not agonizing at the specter of suffering and death. Jesus is in such agony that his sweat becomes “like drops of...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 8, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus does not condemn us sinners; he invites us to renewal. Although without sin, despite his being like us, Jesus refuses to condemn the woman caught “in the very act of committing adultery.” No doubt, those who brought her want to affirm their strict adherence to...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus invites even sinners to the banquet of the kingdom. The strict practitioners of religion complain once again that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them. They probably deride him, whispering to each other, “You cannot take him to any banquet.” But again, too,...
by Ross Dizon | Feb 23, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Our merciful Lord listens to sinners who cry out to him. He takes no pleasure in their death, but in their repentance, so that they may live and bear much fruit. Jesus makes it clear that we are all in need of repentance. He warns that if we do not repent, we will...
by Ross Dizon | Feb 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
A man of prayer, Jesus is capable of everything, of living the hard truth even that there is no glorification without crucifixion. Jesus is devoted to prayer. He is, according to St. Vincent de Paul, “a man of the greatest prayer” (SV.FR IX:415). Or, as Father Robert...
by Ross Dizon | Feb 9, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is near us so that he may save us who cry out to him and call on his name. No one is more near to us than Jesus, the Word made flesh and dwelling among us. He is “God-with-us.” He is near us in many ways. He is within our reach in the least of his brothers and...