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...
Ross Dizon
Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered
by Ross Dizon | September 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Proclaim that Jesus Is the Christ
by Ross Dizon | September 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Groan while Yearning to Be Free
by Ross Dizon | September 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Clean and Not Clean in the Eyes of God
by Ross Dizon | August 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Deny, Slap, Beat, Crucify Jesus
by Ross Dizon | Mar 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, in life and in death, is one with those who are poor, who have no power, whom others cast out. Hence, we cannot...
Bear Much Fruit Means Die with Christ
by Ross Dizon | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus loves others to the end, to being lifted up on the cross. His death proves true that the grain of wheat that...
Grasp What Jesus Is, What He Says and Does
by Ross Dizon | Apr 25, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus who is close to the Father’s heart makes him known to us. It is crucial that we grasp what Jesus is, what he says and does. Those to whom Jesus speaks do not grasp what he teaches by way of a figure of speech. And they are not the disciples but the Pharisees. ...
Revive the Faith of The Faltering
by Ross Dizon | Apr 18, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus feeds us with his word and his body and blood. He makes us live and seeks to revive the faith of those who falter. For sure, Jesus did revive the hopes of those who longed to see their homeland free from the rule of Rome. If he did not do so, the crowds would...
Send Jesus, Send the Disciples
by Ross Dizon | Apr 11, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is God’s Sent One to announce the Good News to the poor. And the Sent One, in turn, does not hesitate to send his disciples. Jesus tells his disciples that for him to send them is to give them a share in his own mission. For he says to them, “As the Father has...
Risen from among Those Who Are Dead
by Ross Dizon | Apr 4, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, who died on the cross, has risen. Hence, we cannot look for him among the dead, but among the living. Early in the morning, following the Sabbath right after Jesus’ death and burial, Mary of Magdala goes to the tomb. Knowing what Mark and Luke say, we can...
Feed Other Humans First of All
by Ross Dizon | Mar 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus seeks to feed us with his body and blood, so that we may have life to the full. He loves us, yes, to the end. For sure, the thirty pieces of silver cannot but feed even more Judas Iscariot’s greed. But does the traitor sell Jesus for a trifle, asking no high...
Dead to Sin and Living for God in Christ
by Ross Dizon | Mar 21, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in him, though they die, will not stay dead. In him they will live for God and be dead to sin. There cannot be dead folks among those who believe in Jesus. This flies in the face of my sorrow due to the...
Open the Eyes of Those Who Cannot See
by Ross Dizon | Mar 14, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the light of the world. That is why to open the eyes of the blind is part of the task that his Father has entrusted to him. Jesus decides on his own to open the eyes of a man blind from birth. The latter gets to see so clearly that he recognizes him to be a...
Visions of a Better Future of Glory
by Ross Dizon | Feb 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the risen Son of Man. And he is so, for, though the Son of God, he was a servant and obeyed to death on the cross. He makes our visions of glory come true. Peter does not like what Jesus says about his visions of what is to come. They seem terrible to...
Tempt Someone Is Not What God Does
by Ross Dizon | Feb 21, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus let the devil tempt him just as we are tempted, though he did not sin. Hence, he can feel for us who are weak, and lift us up. James makes clear that God does not tempt us. We are tempted by our own evil desire. Today’s first reading and gospel, though,...