Peter said to him, “Though all become deserters because of you, I will never desert you.” Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And so...
Ode to St. Urho
posted by DJL
Monday, of course, is St. Patrick’s Day, when the Irish celebrate their patron saint and most of the rest of us claim just a bit of Irish ancestry in order to join in all the fun. But do you know what Sunday, March 16th is? As it turns out, it’s St. Urho’s Day, the occasion when those of...
Matthew 26:31-32
posted by DJL
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all become deserters because of me this night; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” As will often be the case on this night,...
Celebrating Green Eggs and Ham
posted by DJL
I have been seriously remiss with regard to my promise a week or two ago to write a bit more about Theodor Seuss Geisel, the beloved author better known as Dr. Suess. But while I won’t fulfill that promise in full, I will share just a bit about one of his most famous creations. Geisel, as you may know, thought that children’s books – particularly those designed to encourage reading – where a bit of a travesty: dull, unimaginative, boring. (And if you ever had to sit down with the “Dick and Jane” stories you’ll know what he meant!). And so he set out to rectify matters by taking a basic set of 225 vocabulary words that were the...
Matthew 26:30
posted by DJL
When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. There’s something about this solitary verse that I find quite touching. It’s a bit of an orphan, serving as a transitional verse from the tension and drama of Jesus’ prediction of his betrayal while sharing his Last...