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God's Great Yes to Humanity
Easter Sunday represents God’s great yes to humanity. Throughout history, humanity has turned its back on God, but the Lord has constantly sent rescu…
6 years, 3 months ago
Into the Cacophony of Sin
On Palm Sunday, we are privileged to listen to one of the great Passion narratives. In Matthew’s account, we see Jesus as a still-point in the maelst…
6 years, 3 months ago
Let Him Go
The great Lenten readings for Cycle A move in a kind of crescendo from thirst, to blindness, to death—all metaphors for spiritual dysfunction. This S…
6 years, 3 months ago
A Man After God’s Own Heart
Episode 164
Our first reading for this weekend gives us a glimpse of one of the most powerful texts in the Bible—indeed, one of the truly great literary works th…
6 years, 3 months ago
By the Waters of Meribah
Episode 163
Our first reading for today is the famous quarreling of Israel by the waters of Meribah in the book of Exodus. We find the chosen people in the midst…
6 years, 3 months ago
Listening to a Higher Voice
Episode 162
Last week, we looked at the familiar material from the third chapter of Genesis. God’s human creatures fell, precisely in the measure that they stopp…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Disobedience of Adam and Eve
Episode 161
We enter once more into the very holy season of Lent: a time of preparation; a desert time; a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving; a time to retu…
6 years, 4 months ago
Be Holy
Episode 160
As we continue our focus on the Old Testament texts, we turn this week to the nineteenth chapter of the book of Leviticus. As the name suggests, the …
6 years, 4 months ago
Choosing to Keep the Commandments
Episode 159
Our first reading for this weekend is taken from a book that we don’t consult that frequently in the course of the liturgical year—namely, the book o…
6 years, 4 months ago
Love as a Panacea
Episode 158
I would like to concentrate on the marvelous passage from chapter 58 of the prophet Isaiah, which is our first reading for this weekend. This final s…
6 years, 5 months ago