nbsp Cambridge MA There is hardly a day left before Christmas little time to stop and ponder the wisdom of the 4th Sunday of Advent but today 39 s Gospel is too important to let go by without comment ldquo In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country w

nbsp No theologian should have the temerity to rewrite revelation It can rsquo t be edited for two reasons First because we confess that revelation is divine in origin The creature cannot correct the creator Secondly revelation can rsquo t be redrafted because revelation is more than a text

nbsp By my count today 39 s Gospel Luke 1 26-38 appears four times during Advent nbsp So perhaps it 39 s worth a bit of reflection nbsp What does the Annunciation such a beautiful and strange story have to teach us today nbsp What is it about the Annunciation that is so captivating H

nbsp Before seeing the movie quot Flight quot the last time I saw Fordham grad and benefactor Denzel Washington was in the movie quot Elie quot He had just relinquished his license to kill and at death rsquo s door had a religious experience worthy of any of the saints So it was jarring to

There was once an Advent of some thousands of years.

Do the end-of-year readings really say that our world is fated to end in terror and panic?

This advent, look to John the Baptist as a model for Christian life today.

In the cold of a northern Advent, the image of an infant in the chill touches our hearts.

Cambridge MA This is the second of my Advent reflections occasioned by the Sunday readings reflection on the state of my soul and our souls and other things as well See the first here I just finished ndash on CD while driving home from my parish - Jennifer duBois rsquo fine first novel

Flannery O rsquo Connor would have proudly owned the noun and the two adjectives most commonly associated with her name It rsquo s hard to imagine an ldquo author rdquo who could have been more ldquo Southern rdquo or more ldquo Catholic rdquo even though she lived at a time when those two a