What is Truth?
How do we get at it? Do we really care about it? This is where I am led in pondering today’s gospel reading*. Jesus has been arrested, and from one ruling power to the next, he is being asked to explain himself. Though these leaders seem to not really want to hear his truth. Or […]
When Things Fall Apart
The student’s heads were on a swivel, necks craning to take in the grandeur and elegance of the temple—impressed by this great work of human hands. “It’s all going to come tumbling down”, says Jesus.* On a high place, across from this house of God, Jesus warns his friends that fake leaders will soon appear, […]
Nevertheless
I’m imagining myself sitting with a movie producer, presenting my treatment of today’s Gospel passage* for adaptation into a short film. It’s a story, I’d tell him, about a massive crowd of people who have lost their way, and one apparently insignificant woman on whom our gaze will rest at the movie’s end. It’s an […]
For All the Saints…
Although our definition of saints may vary widely, All Saints Day is a time to remember those who have inspired and shaped our lives in a Jesus-direction. The news that Fr. Thomas Keating died on October 25 seemed somehow fitting. At 95, he was ready. As a Trappist monk and worldwide contemplative teacher, he was […]