For me, there are three themes that I draw out of our tradition and that I emphasize in my preaching: solidarity, empathy and ...

“A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him” (Lk 23:27).

Did you know that the Valley of the Fallen, just outside Madrid, Spain, is home to the tallest cross in the world? The impressive structure stands a remarkable 492 feet ...

and they forced him to carry the cross.” “They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall [a bitter ...

In Jesus's fall beneath the weight of the Cross, the meaning of his whole life is seen: his voluntary abasement, which lifts us up from the depths of our pride. The nature of our pride is also ...

In John 19:28-30, we find Jesus upon the cross, bloody, exhausted ... we are offered freedom from the curse of our sinful nature. We are offered the eternal, abundant life. We are offered an intimate ...

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Galatians ...

As they went out, they came upon a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; this man they compelled to carry his cross. Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ...

Pilate wanted to release Jesus and presented him to the crowd in the hope that they would want him to be freed. On the cross above his head a sign was attached that mockingly read “King of the ...