Foot-washer

  Bellarmine University  Our Lady of the Woods Chapel Easter Sunday https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/033124.cfm    Happy Easter, Bellarmine.  Christ is risen today, Allelulia.  The Easter eggs came out two weeks early in our house this year.  My wife, Kate, brought them out of the basement to get ready for our egg hunt.  Our four kids started to play with them before the Easter bunny could fill them.  Max, one of our four-year old triplets, pulled out this egg here and brought it to me early on Saturday morning (while I was still in bed).   I’m not sure if you can see this well, but this yellow and orange egg has three crosses on it: the cross of Christ and those of the two thieves.  Max said to me, “look Dad!” pointing to Christ’s cross, “Jesus died here.” Then he popped the egg open and said, “it’s empty inside.”  But then he looked a little closer and said, “there’s the sun in there!”  Sun spelled s-u-n....

  St. Agnes Catholic Church  March 2/3 3rd Sunday of Lent  https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030324-YearA.cfm  As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. It is you I seek! For my body yearns, my soul thirsts for God, the living God (Psalm 42:2-3a, 63:2). My high school students have a very strange problem.  [pause for dramatic effect].  They are overhydrated.  I know you are familiar with dehydration.  It may sound strange to hear that a person could be overhydrated, but I see my students carrying around large water bottles at all times—Stanley cups, Camelbacks, Yetis—which they are constantly draining and refilling.  Consequently, they can hardly sit for whole class period without needing to visit the restroom.  And on the way, they refill their water bottles.  This situation would be utterly alien to the people of Jesus’ world, who experienced water scarcity when wandering in the Sinai desert, an...