Deep Calls to Deep Easter Sunday – Your Audio Tour of the Garden…
Eastertide involves entering the sacred space of the garden. John has Jesus entering the garden at the beginning of chapter 18. It’s the garden of God’s glorification as shining on the face of Jesus. Betrayal, arrest, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection all happen here. Again, this is not, as I earlier believed, the garden of […]
Easter Sunday – It’s all happening in the Garden…
[Jesus enters the garden with his disciples…] Which garden? On Easter Sunday I proposed that there was basically only one garden… Eden. And I was wrong. Egad! The greek word that the NRSV translates as “garden” is paradeisos, “paradise.” Who knew! Why is this important? John’s Passion narrative, read on Good Friday, situates the entire story of […]
Easter Sunday – Three Types of Seeing at the Empty Tomb of Jesus…
Happy Easter to you all! May the Risen Christ shine the Light of his glory upon you! Today, I recommend, for your edification and deeper understanding, this video homily by noted biblical scholar Sandra Schneiders, IHM. I find her insights invigorating and substantial… just as when I was her student (a few years back!) at […]
Good Friday leaning into the Easter Vigil
Jesus, whom we encounter in the Good Friday proclamation of the Passion according to John, is the victorious Christ who reveals the glory of God in his dying. What a mystery! St. Paul announces the foundation for approaching the cross – for we can only uncover the unfolding reality of our complicity in Jesus’ death […]
Holy Week – Leaning into Triduum…
[My photo of the installation of cross at St. John’s Church at Creighton University, 7/317] Following Sunday’s gospel, the reading of the Passion of Mark, here’s what I proposed to myself and the congregation at Gesu. Hurt people hurt people. 2. Hurt people hurt people. 3. Hurt […]
Holy Week – Dead Man Preaching: “I’m not there yet…”
Fr. Richard J. Hauser, SJ has served joyfully, effectively, doggedly, and gratefully as a professor of theology, cultivator of Jesuit vocations, and teacher of Ignatian spirituality to faculty at Creighton University for fifty years. As of this past January, he has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer. No treatment. Nada. He’s been given as much as […]
A Good Word from Ron Hansen in America magazine…
I’m so grateful to Ron for reviewing my book, “I Want to See” for America. https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/03/23/what-can-we-learn-blind-bartimaeus It means that much more since I’m such a big fan of his writing. Do check out Ron’s excellent works. You can’t go wrong with any of his books! https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Ron+Hansen
5th Sunday Lent – Seeing, Seeing, and Listening… [audio 1]
The Greeks asked to see Jesus… and everything changed! “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified…” In John’s gospel, seeing is not always believing. The author uses two words in Greek, eidon and horao. Eidon signifies “noticing, observing, seeing.” No belief involved. So, the Greeks seemed to want Jesus’ autograph and would have been satisfied […]
5th Sunday Lent – “If I be lifted up…” Remember Moses…
Here’s a thought: Here’s what it might look like to pray with the passage from Numbers concerning Moses lifting up the serpent… [Numbers 21:4-9] But with their patience worn out by the journey… Am I worn out by my journey? No patience left? How does weariness affect me? the people complained against God […]
5th Sunday Lent – “Now is the Son of Man Glorified…???”
A lot more Johannine irony in this phrase. I myself have moved through a number of different understandings of Jesus’ glorification. I recall attending the Chicago performance of the oratorio “Book of Glory” by John Foley, SJ. A grand piece of music! John walked us all through the latter part of the gospel of John […]
Deep Calls to Deep 