After the Ascension of our Lord, the apostles returned to Jerusalem and gathered in the upper room — and there they waited. It would have been a profoundly disquieting time. The One who had guided their every step, who had answered their questions and stilled their fears, had passed beyond their sight. What would become of them now? Who would sustain them? Were they truly capable of what lay ahead? We may well imagine the anxious conversations, the sleepless nights, the falte

"If you keep love me, you will keep my commandments" (Ga 14, 15) Jesus speaks to us of love not as a feeling but as a dwelling. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” he says. This is not a demand but a promise of intimacy. Love, for Jesus, is not proved by intensity but by fidelity. It is a love that chooses to stay, to shape a life quietly from within. There is a tenderness in these words like the hush of an early morning on the sea shore, when sea and sky are hol

Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (Ga 14,1-12) Picture yourself among the disciples at the Last Supper, sensing that something momentous is about to unfold. “The air is heavy with meaning. The bread has been broken, the cup shared, and my heart is both full and trembling. Jesus speaks of going away, and yet tells us not to let our hearts be troubled. How can they not be, Lord, when the thought of your abs