Calah Alexander has a beautiful post up– Suffering Comes Like a Walker– that meditates on the passage from Spe Salvi that I posted last week (The True Measure of Humanity). She goes from the walking dead to the question of suffering to...
“The belief that love can reach into the afterlife, that reciprocal giving and receiving is possible, in which our affection for one another continues beyond the limits of death– this has been a fundamental conviction of Christianity...
As we have seen, the skeptical and hostile in the Gospels refer to Jesus as the carpenter’s son. These same critics say they know His mother and brethren. Ironically, their very boast shows they know nothing of the secret of this family. The...
“In the modern era, the idea of the Last Judgement has faded into the background: Christian faith has been individualized and primarily oriented towards the salvation of the believer’s own soul, while reflection on world history is...
This morning Dom came to get me up around 7:30 or 8. Lucia’s been having rough nights and I was not an early riser. I lingered in bed, nursing her and trying to say morning prayer. Unfortunately the furnace was off and wouldn’t restart...
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The Word Became Flesh
I experienced a bit of liturgical disorientation tonight. As I was putting Lucia down for the night, I opened up iBreviary to pray evening prayer and started reading about a shoot springing from the root of Jesse. What? That’s an Advent...
My last post covered children’s Bibles, the kind of books that collect a bunch of stories from both the Old and New Testaments in an attempt to give a child an overview of the whole Bible. I’m not quite sure what to call this next set of...
“The true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer. This holds true both for the individual and for society. A society unable to accept its suffering members and incapable of helping to...
Not that my quick takes really have anything to do with spring; though I guess the pictures do, kids playing outside and all. I’m just really excited to see the days getting longer and (slightly) warmer. Lucia can say her own name. It sounds...
On the Friday after Ash Wednesday we had to do our grocery shopping for the week. I’d let each of the kids get a free cookie from the bakery but abstained myself. As I was checking out I watched Ben and Anthony and Sophie slowly nibbling their...
