To profess that Jesus was truly human is to insist that he grew as we do.

“It’s in his kiss.” A kiss takes two. When you see how different the other is and yet are drawn in, Christ is calling.

To take Holy Communion in the face of death is to say that it is fellowship, and not food, that matters most.

If we have faith, like Thomas and Thérèse did, we learn from Jesus that to love someone is to promise never to leave them.

When Christ entered hell law of sin and death was set aside so that mercy could triumph.

Jim Casy’s dying words echo those of our Lord: “Father, forgive them, Father, they know not what they do.”

On this night, when Jesus has nothing left to give, he gives all. He gives his very self.

We should see this passage as early Jewish Christians recognizing their own, internal dividedness.

There would be no atheists if God appeared in the sky. But there’d be no believers either.

There are truths that can only be shared by way of testimony, and these are the ones that matter most to us.