Finding the joy of God’s kingdom For many years I skimmed over the Sermon on the Mount as an example of Jesus’ hyperbolic teaching without engaging it as a key to a deeper relationship with God.
The hope of glory In Romans 8, St. Paul develops the contrast between present sufferings and future glory.
Beauty in continuity The paintings in the Chauvet Cave scream out a message of beauty in continuity. They reflect a sacrosanct cultural order that was highly successful for hundreds of generations in instilling its values via the representation of the world outside the walls of the cave.
Wrought in flesh, redeemed by flesh The mystery and indeed the scandal of the Incarnation, the subject of Christmas and also Easter and Ascension Day, is that God took on flesh in space and time: middle-eastern, Jewish, male.
Can Michael Corleone be redeemed? Sin and the Godfather Why, at the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, does Michael Corleone die alone?
We are marching in the light of God All of this has lain heavy like a stone on my heart. But I do not have to live in fear when I go to the house of God on Sunday mornings. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy upon us.
Mysterium fidei For Christians, the Paschal mystery is the hub from which all the spokes of the wheel emanate.
