Strange though it might seem at one level, our Lord seems to have been a general contractor. Or perhaps it is not strange. After all, if he is indeed the Word by whom the Father created all things, it is perhaps fitting that he would do in miniature what he does at the level of the universe itself.
Lent is soon upon the Christian world. A time of focus on the public ministry of Jesus of Nazareth as it led him to a death that completed his sacrificial life of doing his Father’s will…