Perhaps this in-Spirit-ing feast of Pentecost can give the Body of Christ the Voice of the Spirit to oppose, address, and work to end the insane divisions and violence that come from differences in language, race, nationality, and ways of life.
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After Easter II is over, the glorious wounds of Christ sort of vanish from our Easter celebrations. It’s almost as though we believe that the Resurrection erased the Crucifixion.
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Blessed are you, Believing Thomas, in whom we often see our twin: absent, defiant, demanding, accepting, faith-filled.
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I’ve mistaken my relatively consistent faithfulness to Lenten disciplines as truly “Lenting” during that forty-day stretch of life.
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The Word became flesh, and came to dwell among us.
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I still search for these sorts of “lenses” to help me view and understand Lent anew, as I participate in its trinity of disciplines, along with whatever other spiritual or physical discipline I’ve chosen.
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A desire for clarity and truth may be what brings Jesus to the Jordan, because he lives in a crazy world where both are in short supply.
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When I was very little, I truly thought that “Harold” was an angel’s name, and that the man who owned and ran Harold’s Grocery down
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[T]his book will be highly informative and useful for anybody who is involved in the work of evangelization in today’s U.S. parishes or dioceses.
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It is my hope that we can occasionally look around and still encounter that flash of the original divine, creating spark in the lives and work of the artists around us.
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