The fourth servant song, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, is the most powerful reading I’ve encountered this Lent. It will be the first reading on Good Friday, and I’d encourage you to ask God for the grace of an ...

By the close of today's long Gospel, the work of our redemption will have been accomplished, the new covenant will be written in the blood of His broken body hanging on the Cross at the place called ...

my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear…and he shall take away the sins of many and win pardon for their offences” (Isaiah 53:3, 4, 5, 11, 12). The suffering servant of ...

Centuries before Jesus was born, Jewish prophets had foretold his coming. During Holy Week, many of the prophecies made about ...

The grave is the great equalizer of humanity. Regardless of education, economics, or ethnicity, death knows no friend and ...

It’s a thoroughly natural question as we grapple with suffering, sorrow and pain, and in the Bible God’s people certainly often cry out to him in their distress. But it is an unanswerable ...

I know that it will take time, effort, and patience for my friend to make peace with the trauma he is suffering. And I imagine that many of us may be dealing with some difficult life event that is ...

St. Paul ’s understanding of suffering as a participation in salvation is especially evident when he speaks of how his suffering affects others. In 2 Timothy Paul says, “Take your share of ...

An innocent man who had only done right, yet He hung on the cross between two thieves. People hurled insults at Him from the crowd, mocking the words He had once spoken. Here was One who had spent His ...