"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 holding their breath...

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 absence feels like...

A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. (Ga 10,10) Peter tells us that we were once like sheep going astray. Not occasionally lost but habitually wandering. Yet now that we have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of our souls through the initiative of Jesus, his pursuit of us and through his grace. On the day of Pentecost, Peter proclaimed without hesitation: "God has made this Jesus both Lord and Messiah." The...