Month: March 2008

“WHY DO WE CAST STONES?” (Jn 10:31-42): 14 March 2008 (Friday)

Today’s Readings

A couple of days ago I got an email from a friend who, as she sometimes does, provided a link and suggested that I check out this clip from YouTube.  The clip turned out to be an interview segment of a recent local beauty pageant.  Apparently, the incident has been receiving a lot of attention the past days.

Eager for a good laugh, I clicked on the YouTube link, and there they were–over ten clips of the same single notorious incident had been uploaded!  One of them, in fact, already received over 700,000 hits.

“HAVE I SENT YOU INTO HIDING?” (Jn 8:51-59):  13 March 2008 (Thursday)

Today’s Readings

“DO I MAKE ROOM FOR YOU?” (Jn 8:31-42):  12 March 2008 (Wednesday)

Today’s Readings

C.S. Lewis of the “Narnia” fame wrote a different kind of book that he called The Screwtape Letters.  The protagonist is called Screwtape, a middle-level demon in Hell, who writes a series of letters to his nephew, a novice demon named Wormwood. In his letters, the elder demon dishes out all sorts of advice to train his nephew on the art of tempting and corrupting a human soul.  He has a lot of experiences, and as expected, he is quite capable of boasting about his conquests.

“CAN I READ BETWEEN THE LINES?” (Jn 8:21-30):  11 March 2008 (Tuesday)

Today’s Readings

Back in 1997, Edwin McCain released an album, for which he gave an interesting title:  “Misguided Roses.”  The only hit from that album is “I’ll Be,” a love anthem–if there is ever one–where the singer confesses his near-desperate love for his beloved and virtually promises heaven and earth.  The refrain goes:

“WILL MY DEMONS WALK AWAY?”  (Jn 8:1-11): 10 March 2008 (Monday)

Today’s Readings

There is a moving scene in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” where after the scourging, Mary the mother of our Lord and Mary Magdalene fall on their knees on the blood-soaked floor to save whatever blood of Jesus they can save.  As she does so, Mary Magdalene tearfully remembers her very first encounter with Jesus when she was also down on the floor.  In that first encounter, recounted in today’s gospel reading, she has been caught in the act of adultery and is dragged to the public square for stoning.