Sunday Readings

Darkness and danger engulfs the world, but Jesus promises that he is the way out.

The Emmaus disciples tell a stranger what they really think of Jesus. We meet Jesus in the same way.

After years de-emphasizing salvation, it seems scandalous to say it, but this is why Jesus died and rose.

Everyone who saw the empty tomb told others. If we do the same, the world’s gods will topple again.

“If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you,” he said. “They will do all these things to you on account of my name.”

Words we may have passed over reveal who Mary, Martha and Lazarus were – and who Jesus is.

The man born blind learns who he really is meant to be from Jesus. Just like us.

We all ache for more in life, and we can’t even explain what we are missing. But he can.

The readings show four people who climbed mountains for God: Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and you.

On the altar at Mass we see Jesus’s ultimate answer to Satan. Then we join him.

Jesus told us we were blessings to the world. Now he tells us, sternly, how to get there.

Jesus says not to think of the world as a competing light, but as a spiritual black hole.