At the risk of repeating myself (again), it’s been a long and hard few years. I’ve been pretty open about my own struggles and anxieties about it all here. I remain convinced that it’s important for all of us to take the time we need to lament all that has happened and is still happening … Continue reading Can These Bones Live? A Reflection for Holy Saturday, 2022
Since its first hesitant days, the Church has always claimed that Jesus is the fullest revelation of God in the world. As it is written: Whereas long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, in these last days God has spoken to us by a Son, whom God … Continue reading The Cross as Theophany: A reflection for Good Friday, 2022
On Wednesday of Holy Week we recall Jesus’ betrayal at the hands of his disciple Judas. It’s a sad story, of Judas’s disappointment about who Jesus was (and was not) and the resentment he allowed to build up in his heart. And so it stands as a warning to us, who also try to follow … Continue reading The Glory of God: A Reflection for Wednesday of Holy Week, 2022
Today’s Gospel reading, John 12.20-36, tells an interesting story — a small story, really, but with big implications. In the aftermath of the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, some Greeks — likely ‘God-fearers’, a technical term at the time for Gentiles who were interested in Judaism but did not fully convert — come to the disciples … Continue reading Seeing Jesus: A Reflection for Tuesday of Holy Week, 2022
One of the geeky things I enjoy about the lectionary for Holy Week is that after all of the drama of Palm Sunday, on Monday we flash back a day or two, to a moment of peace between Jesus and his friends before he makes the final leg of his journey into Jerusalem. But in … Continue reading ‘Nice Things’: A Reflection for Monday of Holy Week, 2022
Matthew Root 