Tag: Last Temptation
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WAS JESUS CHASTE?
( A sequel to “Playing on his Mind”) Please don’t make haste, or waste your breath on condemning me for even asking such an audacious question. It is not altogether irrelevant or irreverent. Some years ago there was a huge outcry in Kerala over the Malayalam drama “The Sixth Wound”; an adaptation from “The Last…
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What’s Good This Friday?
As the Secretary of the Legion of Mary in my parish 51 years ago it was my lot to give a commentary on the Holy Week liturgy. That got me thinking on what was so unique about Jesus’ rather “limited” suffering on the cross. Take the number three. Three temptations in the desert, three years…