In the Name... I think it was Mark Twain who said that he had been born humble, but, managed to grow out of it. "Do you know what I have done to you?" The Gospels are full of information about Jesus' life on earth - who he was, where he went, what he did, why he died. But, only once do we hear about what he was like inside. Only once does Jesus himself reveal to us something about his character, his personality, and he does it in Matthew 11. 28. We may be familiar with th

In the Name... A rabbi once told me the reason that it took ten plagues to convince Pharaoh to let the Hebrews go. He was in De-Nile. In the ritual of the Jewish Passover, there is a point when the youngest person present asks the question, "Why is this night different from all other nights?" In the Passover meal which was held in an Upper Room in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago, we might presume that this question was posed by St. John, who, tradition tells us, was the youn