As I write, I just returned from time at a cabin on Lake Augusta. A spring feeding into the lake was along one side of our cabin. The continuous bubbling and gurgling comforted my busy mind, tense ...

He enters the water and we go there with him. He also acquires gifts to give us. The text says, when Jesus was baptized, “heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form ...

O Fountain of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, cover the whole world and empty yourself out upon us. O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a Fountain of Mercy for us ...

Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his theological grandeur. He gives us fewer stories ... sheep, water and world suffuse the text providing ...