Epiphany XV: Vinegar and Salt

Why is Jesus offered vinegar?

Mockery — or proposal?

Boaz once invited Ruth to dip her bread in vinegar.

At the Cross, that gesture repeats — in Jesus’ final single breath, a covenant is preserved.

Epiphany VI: The Crux

The crippled one in Acts is over forty — a detail that amazes. Human life forms in 39–40 weeks. How much longer, then, for divine life: forty years, and more, before the newborn, crippled from birth, walks — and leaps as a gazelle, taking Peter’s hand.