2026 Lenten Retreat
TALK ELEVEN
Holy Saturday, April 4, 2026
Fr. James R. Page, SJ, a Jesuit priest from New Orleans, Louisiana. He pursued his undergraduate studies in economics at Pomona College, also spending a semester abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wherein he continued his engagement with Hebrew and Jewish studies. He later went for further studies, this time in philosophy at Regis College in the University of Toronto, focusing in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Following this, he taught Scripture at St. Louis University High School before going to the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry for theology. He is currently in Rome pursuing a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, a mission of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
The Good Thief Luke 23:39-43
Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us.”
The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation?
And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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