Harpa Dei

Good Friday Suffering and death of our Lord Judas has completed his betrayal and Jesus is taken captive. This happens after the Lord in Gethsemane has received the suffering from the Father’s hand and has said His yes to all that now lay before Him. A yes that went through fear and pain of death; […]

Maundy Thursday Preliminary remark: I created these meditations 2018, so they are repetitions. At that time the present painful situation was not yet foreseeable. That is why there are formulations which refer to the normal course of the Holy Masses. Nevertheless, I will not change the meditations, but I will hold them out to the

Holy Wednesday (Daily Reading: Mt 26:14-25) The betrayal of God, at the price of unjust mammon! How often does that happen? How often do people sell themselves for mammon, for their honor, their disorderly lust, their power… Thirty pieces of silver they gave to Judas and knew that blood was on this money. But it

Holy Tuesday Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 Having said this, Jesus was deeply disturbed and declared, ‘In all truth I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.’ The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he meant. The disciple Jesus loved was reclining next to Jesus; Simon Peter signed to him and said, ‘Ask

Holy Monday Jn 12:1-11 Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for him there; Martha waited on them and Lazarus was among those at table. Mary brought in a pound of very costly ointment, pure nard, and with it

Palm Sunday In the Holy Week we change a little the previous rhythm. Scripture interpretations will be more meditative and somewhat shorter. “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens!” (Mt 21:9) The people are gathered, and for a short

Jn 11:45-57 Many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what he did, believed in him, but some of them went to the Pharisees to tell them what Jesus had done. Then the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting. ‘Here is this man working all these signs,’ they said,

Jn 10:31-42 The Jews fetched stones to stone him, so Jesus said to them, ‘I have shown you many good works from my Father; for which of these are you stoning me?’ The Jews answered him, ‘We are stoning you, not for doing a good work, but for blasphemy; though you are only a man,

Lk 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord

Jn 8:31-42  To the Jews who believed in him Jesus said: If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples; you will come to know the truth, and the truth will set you free. They answered, ‘We are descended from Abraham and we have never been the slaves of anyone; what