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Saturday, September 28, 2024

The center holds

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  ‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone we...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Old souls, needed now

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But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partial...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Something to see

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He [Jesus] took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,   “Whoever welcomes one of these lit...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Postcard from the kingdom of reality

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Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with things tha...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Wondering about pinwheels

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So Jesus asked the twelve, ‘Do you also wish to go away?’ Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal ...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

The mystery of his presence

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Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. … It i...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Just stop

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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life ...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

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Tasting eternity I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

My name … and yours

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  There is … one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:6) Tears sometimes surprise. All it tak...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

The way home

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  B ecause your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

On the ridge

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The  Lord  is king, he is robed in majesty;   the  Lord  is robed, he is girded with strength. … More majestic than the thunders of mighty w...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Coming home

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  Jesus answered him, ‘Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with th...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

The voice

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[Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He ...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Apophatic wonder ... or why I want to share a beer with Aquinas

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I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven … and heard things that are not to be told, that no morta...
Monday, June 10, 2024

In search of home

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Looking at those who sat around him, Jesus said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister ...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

In praise of flesh

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For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. (Mark 12:25) Tell me, Lord...
Sunday, June 02, 2024

Broken open

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While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is my body.’ (Ma...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

The view from here

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Then [Jesus] took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them,  ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my ...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

An (almost) old man’s dream

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“In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy...