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“Hesed” All the Way Through
Episode 67
The Divine Love is the great theme of the Bible, but one of the mistakes we can make is to project onto God our way of being. God’s love is unconditi…
8 years, 4 months ago
Cleansing the Temple
Episode 66
The Temple, for Old Testament Jews, was everything. But St. Paul, who lived for many years in Jerusalem and knew the rituals of the Temple very well,…
8 years, 4 months ago
The Mystical Transfiguration of Christ
Episode 65
The story of the Transfiguration of Christ has beguiled the Christian mind for centuries. It is the clearest New Testament evocation of mystical expe…
8 years, 4 months ago
Angels and Wild Beasts
Episode 64
On this first Sunday of Lent, the Church asks us to meditate on animals and angels. For Christ, in his own person, joins together the disparate eleme…
8 years, 4 months ago
The Leper and Evangelization
Episode 63
Our Gospel this week gives us one of the great scenes of healing in the ministry of Jesus, and as is usually the case, the Gospel writer composes the…
8 years, 5 months ago
A Prophet Like Moses
Episode 61
It is of particular importance this week that we read the first reading and the Gospel together, for the former sheds enormous light on the latter. I…
8 years, 5 months ago
Radical Christianity
Episode 60
When Christianity is reduced to deism or moralism, we turn the Gospel into a faint echo of the surrounding culture. But today's readings propose some…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Call of Samuel
Episode 59
The story of the call of Samuel is illuminating for our time of corruption and cleansing. I argue that the sex abuse scandal in the church should be …
8 years, 6 months ago
Spiritual and Religious
Episode 58
Our modern culture suggests a tension between spirituality and religion. But the Magi in today's Gospel demonstrate that when spirituality is lifted …
8 years, 6 months ago