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The Word
Engaged
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
In Human Likeness
Wondrously, the one who need not have been like us, yet chose
to be so, did not flee. He entered the garden of Gethsemane to rectify the garden
of Eden.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
The Passion of Jesus
Jesus imitated biblical heroes in his life. Luke and the other evangelists show this by drawing on Second Isaiah and on Psalms 22 and 69 in writing about Jesus.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
Cyril of Alexandria
Christ is
both the founder of the Church and its foundation, and upon this foundation we,
like precious stones, are built into a holy temple to become, through the Spirit,
a dwelling place for God.
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Preparing for
Sunday
Larry
Gillick, S. J.
There is not much we can do with the memories which make up this liturgy and this coming week. Praying might be nothing more than staying "awake" to what is being done, offered, and remembered.
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
Historically speaking, Jesus' motive was
probably to lay down the final challenge to his people
to accept the message and coming of the kingdom of
God with full knowledge that his action would almost
certainly cost him his life.
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