However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.

First Saturday of Advent

Dec. 2, First Friday of Advent.

If we are honest, to hear is to disobey, particularly if God’s words do not comport with our own plans.

Nov. 30, First Wednesday of Advent

Nov. 29, First Tuesday of Advent

None of us truly understands what it means that “the Son of Man will come.”

The more we turn the camera on ourselves, the less likely we are to direct our attention to God.