Deep in my heart, I believe that if God’s light were not stronger than all the depth of human iniquity that can surround people passing from this world to the next, it would not be worth blessing candles today.
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Deep in my heart, I believe that if God’s light were not stronger than all the depth of human iniquity that can surround people passing from this world to the next, it would not be worth blessing candles today.
Read moreWhat happened in Bethlehem, after all,turns all expectations of what constitutes normality on its head.
Read moreWhy care about November 30 as “Remembrance Day for Lost Species”?
Read moreRather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
Read moreI want to invite us all to a kind of liturgical “mapping” here.
Read moreSo, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
Read moreCandlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.
Read moreEver since then, the Three Kings, coming from the East, have stood for a worship of Christ beyond all local and ethnic boundaries. But what if we draw the circle even wider?
Read moreI am unsure that my severe case of eucharistic non-coherence can be cured any time soon.
Read moreAs the world faces yet another damning report of Catholic clergy sexual abuse of minors, I return once again to an intrinsic link between the Eucharist and betrayal that first comforted me some years ago.
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