Who, Me?
When I picked up the phone, my friend said: “I might just need you to tell me I’m forgiven.” To be clear, she had done nothing to hurt me; the situation for which she wanted absolution had nothing to do with me, even tangentially. She had intervened with good intentions in a situation that ended […]
Magic
The nativity set is as old as I am, and one of the few things from my childhood that remain. That, and me, and my little sister’s ornaments. When I found out that the wise men came almost two years after Jesus’ birth, I began putting them across the room from Mary, Joseph and the […]
Following the Christ Child
Christmas has passed, along with the hustle and hurry of all the preparations. A lull has arrived, inviting us to rest. This week’s scriptures,* however, recount a very different experience of the first Christmas. Soon after Jesus is born, he and his parents become refugees, fleeing to Egypt. Jesus enters the world not through safety, […]
Waiting for Christmas
Dorothy Day and the Holy Family of the Streets” by Kelly Latimore On this last Sunday of Advent, we read Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus. There are no wise men journeying towards a star, no shepherds and cattle, no choirs of angels. Instead, there is an angel telling a very scared man […]
