More Than a Baby – Jan. 1, 2021
“The celebration of Christmas is not merely a sentimental waiting for a baby to be born. It is much more an asking for history to be born! Creation groans in its birth pains, waiting for our participation with God in its renewal (see Romans 8:20–23). We do the Gospel no favor when we make Jesus, […]
Watch – Dec. 31, 2020
“Watch not the bitter earth, but the starry sky….” -Andrew Greeley
A Mother’s Heart – Dec. 30, 2020
“What a miracle that the world should have been permitted to present itself before God in the shape of this laden warmth, the trustful security of a mother’s heart.” -Alfred Delp, The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, “The People of Advent”
Secretly Revealed – Dec. 29, 2020
“And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes […]