Like a vine tender cares for their vineyard, Jesus nurtures each branch. Nicodemus, once overgrown and shadowed, needed pruning to grow in the light. At the cross, after 3 years of pruning, everyone else saw only darkness, but Nicodemus saw the light of the King.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
As we enter holy week Matthew wants us to see something so clear. We all have abandoned Jesus.
Who would you allow at your table for dinner? Jesus is always accused of having the wrong people at his table. But if his table is big enough for Judas and Peter, then it is big enough for me.
The Magi visiting the Holy Family is absurd. A Roman Governor's wife defending Jesus? Absurd. Most absurd? Jesus taking our cries of "Crucify!" to save us all. Matthew Chapter 27
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Beyond the tomb's despair, its emptiness unveils the way cleared for our return home. Matthew Chapter 28