The Good Word

The baptism of Jesus is the beginning of his ministry as all of the Synoptic Gospels Matthew 3 13-17 Luke 3 21-23 Mark 1 9-15 and Acts 10 37-38 demonstrate This is the point at which Jesus is called both to begin and to fulfill his mission One of the major questions must be quite simply why

Messy Jesus Blog a new blog run by Sr Julia Walsh FSPA nbsp and her friends has a guest blog from Sr Sarah Hennessey reflecting on the Baptism of Jesus The entry Segues looks at the reality of transitions in our lives Liturgically now is a moment of segues from the nativity of Epiphany t

This reflection on True Grit contains a multitude of spoilers True Grit is a biblical movie from the beginning to the end not just in terms of biblical citations and hymns which mine the biblical landscape but in terms of characterization themes tone and feel The Coen brothers rsquo film

If it is true that God is the end to which we are all called the source from whom all life emerges and the goal for which we yearn and strain then it is so for all people The knowledge of God is not simply something which becomes known with the coming of Christ it was known before his coming and

The central point of the Magi story is clear gentiles treat Jesus as a king whereas all Jerusalem is greatly disturbed by news of a newly born King of the Jews the title currently held by Herod the Great as a gift from Rome nbsp One finds little openness to gentiles from Jesus in his publ

Happy New Year Or is it The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas December 31 has readings from 1 John 2 18-21 and John 1 1-18 the first a little chilling the second very heart-warming nbsp Just like winter in the frozen north when you step into a warm house from the frigid outdoors nbsp

When I was 5 or 6 years old I convinced my mother that I should sleep under the Christmas tree so that I could wait for Santa and greet him when he arrived at our house I don rsquo t recall much of the rest of that night but I have always been a fitful sleeper and I rolled into the tree and crash

Every one of the canonical Gospels insists on starting its story with the identification of Jesus as divine nbsp It is Matthew by linking Isaiah with the child conceived through the Holy Spirit who uses the word Immanuel of him nbsp imm with anu us el God nbsp As Matthew draws the r

This O-antiphon explicitly looks to the universality of Jesus nbsp Thus King of the nations is a title which brings up the subject of the Gentiles within Jewish thinking nbsp A few brief remarks about this are in order First as Acts points out the acceptance of Gentiles into the Christian c