The reading from Acts is set in the upper room, where the disciples are gathered between the ascension and Pentecost. About 120 persons are there (1:15), a symbol for the full number of disciples. In ...

Holy Week 2023 continues with Scripture readings from Isaiah 42, Psalm 27 and John 12 that seem to describe a warrior planting his feet firmly in preparation for battle. But he has no weapons except ...

This day we call Palm Sunday, or in our odd, ecclesial grammar, "Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion," always gives us too much to take in. It begins with Jesus’ entry into the holy city of Jerusalem ...

If, like Peter, we acknowledge that Christ is the anointed saviour sent by God, then we must accept him and his mission on his terms, not ours In an episode of the TV series Blue Bloods, Police ...