Father Matthew Wiering Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
In John Chapter 12 we encounter Jesus at the height of his career. He has just raised Lazarus who had been dead four days in the tomb. When he enters Jerusalem for the last time, crowds gather to sing and wave palm branches in celebration. In today's Gospel we see that even the Greek-speaking Jews who have traveled a great distance to Jerusalem have heard about him and are trying to see him. Everybody is talking about him, and many desire to crown him King of Israel. It is at this moment, when Jesus has so many eating from the palm of his hand, that he announces how he, the Son of Man, will be glorified: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it will yield a rich harvest. Whoever loves his life loses it, but whoever hates his life will save it for eternal life." To say that this is not what the crowd is expecting Jesus to say would be an understatement. Yet Jesus is showing us the secret to new life in Christ: We must die to ourselves every day, so that Christ will live anew within me.
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Will You Come to the Wedding Feast?
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Bearing the Fruit that God is Looking For
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Which Son Will We Be?
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Getting What We Deserve
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Why Jesus Expects Us to Forgive
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: How and Why to Correct Another Person
8/30/20: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Seeing our Suffering as God Sees It
8/23/20: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time: Where is the Pope in the Bible?
8/9/20: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: If Jesus Needed to Pray, then we REALLY Need to Pray
8/2/20: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Only Proper Response to another Person
7/26/20: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Who is the Pearl of Great Price?
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Why Does Jesus Teach with Parables?
7/12/20: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God is not Like Us: What the Strange Sower Tells Us About God the Father
7/5/20: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Surrendering our Burdens to Jesus
6/28/20: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Losing our Life...So that We Can Find It
6/21/20: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Pains (and Awkwardness) of Being a Prophet
6/14/20: A Personal Reflection on the Eucharist
6/7/20: My Vocation Story
5/31/20: Pentecost Sunday: What the Holy Spirit Can Do in Us
5/26/20: A Saint for Our Times: Philip Neri
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