There is much more to life and discipleship than death, yet death determines the final meaning of both.
Scripture
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: Praying out loud isn’t just for children.
The prayer of the heart is mysterious, and at certain times it is lacking. Instead, the prayer of the lips that which is whispered or recited chorally is always accessible.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Nothing wonderful in this life will be lost in the resurrection
Intimacy and the honest pleasures of the flesh will not fade away.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What has the Catholic Book Club been reading?
The two most recent selections by the Catholic Book Club couldn’t have been more different: A look at Thomas Jefferson’s quixotic attempt to rewrite the Bible, and Niall Williams’s richly evocative novel about a small village in the west of Ireland.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
It is so easy to forget we are loved. That’s why God gave us his Son — and the church.
Whatever else sin is, it is always a forgetting that we are loved by God. And the more we sin, the more we forget.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Reflection: This Easter, remember that nothing is impossible with God
Suffering is never the end in the Christian worldview and, more importantly, the Christian experience.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Easter Sunday: What a flower can teach us about Jesus’ death (and resurrection)
Louise Glück’s poem, “Wild Iris,” begins with a description of death, the sort of death something made of earth and growing there might recount if it could speak.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Is the Last Supper history’s most paradoxical lie?
The early Christian record is not what we should expect from the human weakness to exploit the truth to serve one’s own ends.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Good Friday homily: Did God the Father demand the death of his Son?
While God the Father did not will the death of the Son, we can still ask why the Father permitted it. The answer lies in the act of our creation.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Reflection: Don’t place a price on other people’s lives. That’s what Judas did.
The Crucifixion is not just an image of God’s love, but a mirror reflecting our sin back to us, saying, this is the evil you’re capable of.