Let us pray to God our Father that we rise with the risen Lord Jesus: God of all life, help us to believe in life, and see Jesus Christ raised up and alive. Through the Holy Spirit, may we experience him walking with us on the road of life, so that we be a living […]
The resurrection of Jesus makes sense of the tragedy, humiliation, and scandal of crucifixion in that the final authority is not death, evil, and hatred; rather, the final authority is life, love, and compassion. The resurrection of Jesus foreshadows the restoration of us and the world in complete unity and harmony with God and one […]
The great contrast of Palm-Passion Sunday is the glorious, jubilant entrance with Jesus leaving Jerusalem to Golgotha bearing the cross a few days later. The crowd that had joyously received him ridiculed and rejected him viciously as he bore the cross to Calvary. The disciples flee but his mother and a few other women watch […]
Let us pray to God who sent us Jesus to reveal God’s love to us: Lord Jesus, though mocked and derided, you were not put to shame; though beaten and pat upon, you were not disgraced; though innocent and unjustly crucified, you, the Son of God, have been vindicated by your sinless life and exalted […]
