Christmas is a really simple feast: God born among us, for us to see and hear, taste and touch and smell. Yet when we actually read the Gospels it quickly gets complicated — and, I think, more relevant to our not-so-simple...
Advent has been filled with beautiful readings, day by day, and each Sunday, the scene has progressively prepared us for the coming of the Messiah, Jesus who has...
We may be tempted to think of December 25 as THE day, the day God is born in our midst. We may be tempted to think of it as a one time magnificent act, God...
Last week, on Advent’s second Sunday, we heard the opening of the Gospel according to Mark. There we saw not the usual nativity scene, but only a stark presentation of John the Baptist coming in from the desert, preaching the kingdom, baptizing in the Jordan...Read more about The Beginningless Word - Is Right Here
The last judgment scene in Matthew 25 seems surely to be a perfect Gospel for the “Feast of Christ the King.” The “Son of Man” (a designation for the Messiah and indeed for Jesus himself in his suffering as well as his glory) is in this parable imagined...Read more about The Face of the Poor Is the Face of Jesus
Sunday is the 33rd Sunday of the Church’s year (November 15). We continue reading Matthew 25: last week, the young women waiting in the night (25.1-13...
This Sunday would normally have been the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, but this year that is preempted by All Saints Day. This is of course a major feast in the Church calendar, and a feast of special...
