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  Saturday – 7 th Week of Easter Gospel – John 21:20-25 Follow Me! Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem My all-time favorite comic strip is Calvin and Hobbes. Even today, I continue to read it and chuckle!   And I still remember the last original strip that was published on December 31, 1995.   Calvin and Hobbes have jumped on a sled after a snowfall and Calvin says “Let’s go exploring.”   It was an ending and there was sadness.   But it also was a beginning, a hope and a promise of new adventures and experiences. We see something similar in today’s Gospel. These are the very last lines in the Gospel of John, the end of his ‘good news’.   Yes, there is sadness; these are Jesus’ final words.   And yet there is also hope and promise with Jesus’ words “Follow Me.” The invitation is unmistakable!   The challenge is set before the Apostles!   And before us, His disciples as well!   Come, follow Me!!   Follow in My footsteps!   Follow My...
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  Friday – 7 th Week of Easter Gospel – John 21:15-19 Balancing the Books I Don’t Know Him, Outside House of Caiaphas Have you ever hit a baseball through a window?   How about putting that dent in the family car?   Or what about breaking Mom’s favorite flower vase?   I’m sure we all have stories like this!   But what about paying for it??   Sometimes the payback was a punishment of some sort.   Sometimes it was literally payback - paying for that broken window or the car repair or replacing Mom’s vase.   Somehow, we made some sort of restitution.   Somehow, we repaired the damage not only to the object but also to the relationship.   Somehow, we rebuilt that trust! As Jesus appears to the disciples for almost the last time before His Ascension, He asks Peter “Do you love me?”   Not once, but 3 times!   A bit of overkill??   Maybe not!   Even Peter gets a bit distressed.   But maybe there is good reason ...
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  Thursday – 7 th Week of Easter Gospel – John 17:20-26 Can’t We All Just Get Along? Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth Today Jesus continues His prayer to the Father and He prays for one thing – Unity!   That we all may be one just as He is One with the Father.   We have heard it before: one Lord, one faith, one Baptism, one church, Pardon me for saying this but I’m not seeing much unity these past few months (or even longer).   We are so at odds with each other, politically, socially, spiritually.   Everyone seems on edge, ready to pick a fight or argue about anything.   We take sides and then dig in, to the point of demeaning the character of others.   We look for differences instead of appreciating what we have in common.   We lump people into groups instead of appreciating their uniqueness.   In short, we seem to be doing the exact opposite of what Jesus is praying for.   Boy, do we all need a good infusion of the Spirit!...
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