Peace
Wherever you look around you, in our time peace has become a shaky, unstable concept, both at large in our society, and also in relationships between people. Hardly has peace […]
Ascension
Ever since Christ’s Ascension people have a deeply rooted tendency in religious life to look up. Here on earth, in the “vale of tears,” it can’t be found. We have […]
Contemplation on the Service for a Deceased Perso
When a person is dying, in the last weeks or days of life the mask of the everyday personality drops off. It is as if not only the physical sheath, […]
Peace be with you! (John 20:27)
The more often you hear these words, the more you may be surprised that they do not express an incontrovertible truth, but a possibility. Why did Christ never say: “Peace […]
Easter
Never to die anymore—that might well be the worst that could ever happen to a human being. If that ever came to pass, a human life would never be able […]
Judas and Mary Magdalene
In the middle of Holy Week, money has the leading part, both in the anointing Mary Magdalene performs and in the deed of Judas. In both cases, money is the […]
The Entry into Jerusalem
In the months of the life of Christ that led up to Golgotha, what will take place there sounds again and again. Christ Himself foresees His future. Three times He […]