Judas
a new venture

a new venture

I understand Judas and I look forward to meeting him when I get to heaven.
He was not a bad man (that perfume could have been sold and the money given to the poor), but he often put his own interests first, (helping himself to the common purse) and wanted to be in the “in” group (what will you give me if I hand him over to you).

what next ?

what next ?

Yesterday we met Peter. Today we meet Judas. It may be that these two men were similar in many ways. Certainly they had both said yes to Christ and spent three years as...

the face

the face

In my preparation for this Sunday's homily I came across this story about the faces in Da Vinci's Last Supper. The story is told that when the painter Leonardo Da Vinci...

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