Thursday of the 3rd Week of Easter (2)

There is a moment, subtle yet seismic, in the life of every disciple—a moment when the words of Scripture move from being mere ink on a page to fire in the heart. For the Ethiopian eunuch, that moment came on a dusty road as he pondered the words of Isaiah, yearning for …

This afternoon In John’s Gospel, disciples are the Father’s gift to Jesus. That is the sense of Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel: “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him” (Jn 6:44). The Ethiopian eunuch in Acts is a good example of one whom the Father …