Truth is often questioned in our contemporary world. Some think that a claim to truth is an assertion of dominance aimed at the exclusion of others. Jesus had a radically different message. Read more...
The Gospel presents for us today the story of the Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Eckhart believed that this story mystically presented what ought to happen in our souls, so that we find Christ, the Word, born there. Read more...
The Favourite is clever, well-acted, and beautiful to look at. But it’s a rather cold film, featuring largely unsympathetic, overly ambitious characters. Read more...
Let us find peace in our lives and seek to share God's love and peace in a world that yearns for the "light which God sent to reveal his love." Read more...
by Sr. Marian Sartain, OP, Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia
In the grace of the Christmas Mystery may we learn the simple faith and love of John, and proclaim by our lives the joy that comes in knowing by faith that God loves us so much. Read more...
Today, the day before Christmas, keep Jesus front and center in all that you do, otherwise, something very important will be missing come Christmas Day. Read more...
Yesterday (and tomorrow) we read the narrative of Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth who was barren and advanced in age, so she was not expected to bear a child. Read more...
A young Jewish woman will conceive and bear witness to the fact that God always chooses life as a response to Evil, death, and destruction. Read more...
Zechariah and Elizabeth were faithful to God's word following all the precepts and all the commandments laid out for the Jewish people. Their faith was strong. Even so, Zachariah questioned. Read more...
Many lives were impacted (and still are) by the "messiness" of human efforts (Mary, Joseph, unexpected pregnancy) to cooperate with God's plan of salvation. Read more...
Instead of thinking we have nothing to offer, let’s live in the wonder and awe of the countless ways that God desires to and can use us to continue to bring about the plan of salvation. If Emmanuel can come from such a cast of characters, imagine how Christ continues to come to dwell among us and in us today! Read more...
Praising, rejoicing, being glad – all of these place us inevitably and squarely within our lacking, a lacking that only God Himself can perfect. Read more...
We are told in today’s reading from the Book of Sirach that Elijah, the prophet, came into the world, burning like a wild fire of passion and zeal. “How awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is equal to yours? You were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire!” Read more...
If we listen carefully, we will be able to hear God's promise, and not only that but to see that promise made flesh to heal our flesh, our Church. Read more...
The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood, the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. Read more...