“There can be no sadness when life is being born.” St. Leo the Great (400-461). Happy Birthday, Jesus. To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership, Coaching...
“Christmas does not give us a ladder to climb out of the human condition,” Avery Dulles wrote. “It gives us a drill to burrow into the heart of everything that is, and there, find it already shimmering with divinity.” At Advent, flesh is enspirited and spirit is...
“This story my own father told me years ago from his own experience as a teacher. It was near Christmas time and, as classes often do at that time of the year, various projects were being done relating to Christmas. My father was headmaster and went to visit a...
A little boy’s father had been killed in the Iraq War before the boy had ever known him. All he had was a picture of his father, which was placed on an end table in the living room right under the light. One day he said to his mother: “I… To access this post,...
The same God who says “I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you” (Isaiah 48:4); the same God who promises to be our “dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms” (Deuteronomy 33:27) so we can sing “Leaning, Leaning, Leaning on the...
Christmas involves a three-fold conviction of faith: Jesus has come, born to a humble couple in the village of Bethlehem, during the reign of Caesar Augustus: Jesus comes now, saying “Follow me.. . . Love one another.” Jesus comes again in glory at the end of history...
