Reflection for March 9

What [the Gospel of John] really invites me into, and I think our community into, is a sense that Christ is always speaking a new word and that while scripture is important and these stories are important, there is an expectation from the gospel of John that this is a tradition that’s going to continue in the life of the church. So there’s always a new word. And even though we live this very traditional life, my expectation for myself and for my Brothers and for the people that we minister with is about a new word. A word — an experience of the risen Christ that speaks to our situation and who we are (Br. Tom Shaw, Society of Saint John the Evangelist, from their Lenten series, Love Life, www.ssje.org).