The issue is spiritual hunger. Where do we wander when we fail to recognize it, and how might awareness of it bring us home?

God did indeed create pure spirits to serve and to glorify him. They are called angels. But God created us men and women to be of flesh and blood.

God’s moral creation, though it suffers the assaults of evil, will not be shaken nor become unbalanced. The good will prevail.

In Lent, we fast, we pray and we give to the poor. God does not love us more for doing these things. God cannot love us more. So why do we bother?

We know that nothing stays the same, yet we live as though nothing ever changes.

To be a creature is to have an origin, one we neither fashioned nor chose. To be a child of God is to have a destiny, one we freely choose, a gift we are given to cherish.

That may indeed happen, and if it does, you will immediately, intuitively know this: You are going to be purified.

If revolt against injustice, oppression and sorrow begins in the heart, it will not die. The broken heart is the tomb from which Christ rises.

St. Thomas never wrote again, though much has been penned about this great theologian’s descent into silence before his death in 1274. What should we make of it?

The people of Nazareth thought that they were putting a local upstart in his place. The sad irony is that they were rejecting God.