Month: April 2006

Last Sunday was ‘Thomas Sunday.’ The second Sunday of Easter is the time when we reflect on faith and doubt and focus on Thomas, the one who ‘saw and believed.’ Jesus, in turn says, ‘blessed are those who have not seen, yet believe.’ Here are some reflections from an anonymous blogger that posted on my […]

Easter Sunday 2006 I am going to do what most preachers would not do on this day. I want to give you every reason not to believe what we have just heard and what we are celebrating this year. We have scientific reasons. How many of you have ever seen a dead person come back […]

Tonight’s Reflection on Good Friday When the children of Israel fled from Egypt they had two paths to take. They could have gone through the land of the Philistines and arrived more rapidly to the promised land. But God was clear that they were not to take this path. They were to take the more […]

Maundy Thursday Love is an obsession of humanity. So what is it? Is it the eewie goowie feelings of a first kiss? Is it unbridled sensuality? Is it finding that someone who ‘completes us?’ As Jerry Mcguire might say? Mother Teresa said “love is a fruit that is always in season.” To what is she […]

All of a sudden there is a buzz about the ‘Gospel of Judas.’ This is a Gnostic text written by a sect called the ‘Cainites,’ who venerated those punished by God in the Old Testament (like Cain), because they withstood the punishment of the cruel God of the Old Testament. The gospel of Judas says […]

Few pilgrims take the road through Holy Week to the Sunday of Resurrection. It seems that so many go from the ‘Hosannas’ of Palm Sunday to the ‘Christ is Risen’ anthems of Easter Sunday. But isn’t that typical of the world in which we live? We’re all right with bunnies and peeps but not the […]