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John the Baptist sums up the Advent season. He lives in the desert, the place of no distraction, and he speaks a message of repentance and the confes…
18 years, 7 months ago
Incoming!
Advent is from the latin word adventus, which means coming or arrival. Some arrivals are positive; others are downright threatening. The Gospel for t…
18 years, 7 months ago
David and Jesus
Along with Moses and Abraham, David is the most important figure in the Old Testament. The first Christians read Jesus in light of these heroes of th…
18 years, 7 months ago
The Birth Pangs of the Messiah
Our readings for today are apocalyptic, which means that they describe the end of an old world and the beginning of a new one. The new world in quest…
18 years, 7 months ago
Resurrection of the Body
Both our first reading and Gospel for today present the distinctively Biblical view of what happens to us after we die. We do not so much escape from…
18 years, 7 months ago
Zacchaeus
The story of Zacchaeus in the Gospel of Luke is a kind of spiritual itinerary. If we attend to it carefully, we will learn the essentials of the life…
18 years, 8 months ago
Paul’s Farewell Discourse
The second letter to Timothy is Paul's parting advice to his young colleague and spiritual son. He speaks of being poured out like a libation, of bei…
18 years, 8 months ago
The Struggle With Amalek
An awful lot of people probably find our first reading for this week offensive. We hear that Israel mowed the Amalekites down with the sword. How can…
18 years, 8 months ago
The Lessons of Naaman
The story of Naaman the Syrian is not terribly well-known, but it contains some marvelous spiritual lessons for all of us. It tells us of the importa…
18 years, 8 months ago
The Lament of Habakkuk
The prophet Habbakuk expresses what most of us feel at some point in our lives: how can God be so indifferent to suffering? Listen carefully to the a…
18 years, 9 months ago