“Ask, and it will be given you.” (Matthew 7:7)
If things were as simple as it sounds in this sentence, all our questions would be answered and all our desires fulfilled. But the reality of life is very different. […]
“You are the Christ” (Mark 8:29)
Long ago, there was a time when it was necessary not just to recognize Christ in silence, but to also confess Him emphatically, as Peter was the first to do: […]
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 […]