Twice a year, we read the Passion of Jesus: here today and will hear it again on Good Friday. It would be easy to see it as an ancient story that had a beginning and an end. However, it never ends. The suffering, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus continues to this day, especially in His wounded Body, the Church, in us. His suffering Body is the survivors of abuse and those from St Clare’s. His suffering Body is the soldier who deals with the effects of war and the spo

In today’s reading from Ezekiel, we read about the promise of a new Exodus from the exile and a return to the Promised Land. These words of hope must have been like gold to those who had been exiled for years. Many had probably never been to Israel and only heard about it in the telling of the stories that formed the Scriptures we know. God promised them a land of plenty where there is plenty of food, no worry, a land of peace. The only thing that was asked of them: follow

Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem We are one week away from Good Friday. Where has Lent gone? In less than a week we will enter into the Sacred Triduum and immerse ourselves through prayer and ritual into the most sacred event of our faith: the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord. It is sad to think at time that many of our younger people have never been a part of the washing of the feet, spent time with the Lord on Holy Thursday,