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Back to SearchThree Questions from the Desert
Lent is a time of paring down — a time spent in the desert, if you will — as exemplified by Jesus' 40 days of fasting in these arid, barren lands. He…
10 years, 4 months ago
Duc In Altum!
This week's reading from the Gospel of Luke shows us that our encounter with Christ is an invasion of grace and that we must be ready to welcome that…
10 years, 5 months ago
Wall and Bridges
This week's reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity and finding strength in …
10 years, 5 months ago
Walls and Bridges
Episode 112
This week’s reading from the book of Nehemiah provides a reflection on the importance of keeping firm our religious identity, and finding strength in…
10 years, 5 months ago
The First of the Signs
The communion of humanity and divinity in Christ's divine person can be likened to a marriage. Sin effects a kind of divorce between God and humanity…
10 years, 5 months ago
Vitae Spiritualis Ianua
The first Sacrament one can receive in the Church, Baptism, defines our relationship with Christ. In it, we are reborn as part of his mystical body, …
10 years, 6 months ago
Hannah, Her Son, and the Holy Family
Lots of people today will tell you what makes a family well-adjusted, functional, and peaceful. But in today's readings for the Feast of the Holy Fam…
10 years, 6 months ago
Mary, David, and the Theo-Drama
In today's readings we see the Theo-drama, the great story being told by God, confronting the ego-drama, which is the self-centered play we attempt t…
10 years, 6 months ago
Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Our Gospel for this third Sunday of Advent is of extraordinary importance, for it speaks to us of the transformation, the transfiguration of the self…
10 years, 6 months ago
God Has Really Arrived in History
Christianity is not a mythic system. It is an historical religion that makes very concrete historical claims, and the first Christians were intensely…
10 years, 7 months ago