Cruciform Epiphany
One way of picturing the church calendar is as an unspooling thread, with each loop expanding the last. But this year, I’m pondering the complementary, and in some ways more elusive and profound, truth.
TBT: ‘The Year of the Lord’
“In this new year of the Lord that lies before us, there will be a plentiful measure of blood and tears. But, as always, Christ stands with outstretched, nail-scarred hands ready to make every man who responds to him an agent in the dispensation of His healing grace.”
More important than you thought: ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’
For those of us who did not live through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the context may not be immediately evident.
What is your orientation?
Reflections on returning home by another way. "Our vocation in this whole communion begins in the corner we find ourselves, exercising our priesthood in offering our lives and everything they touch, to the redemptive purposes of God."
On the Magi: Perennial problem
Unsightly reaction incited: my perennial problem.
On the Magi: Terror unleashed
Outwitted, outmanoeuvred,
Herod unleashes terror.
On the Magi: We refugees
By the first dream,
I was assured.
On the Magi: Offerings presented
Away from home,
Mission accomplished:
It is finished.