Saturday, January 27, 2018
Mark 1:21-28 In Washington DC there is an old fire escape which made a brief appearance in “The Exorcist.” When I was an intern on the hill a bunch of us went up there one night and then one-by-one clambered down the thing. It’s lucky one of us didn’t break...
Saturday, January 27, 2018
For years, my wife urged me to go to Cursillo, a weekend retreat designed to deepen and strengthen faith. She had found the experience to be transformational, but I wasn’t sure. I didn’t think I needed to go—my relationship with the Lord was strong enough. In 2006, I...
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Imagine the glory of God’s face shining upon us. When we look into the eyes of someone who truly loves us, do we feel the penetrating beams of this divine light in our hearts? What a miracle to be that light for each other. Theologian Henri Nouwen writes, “There is no...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Conversion of St. Paul Acts 26:9-21 As I was reading those portions of the book of Acts assigned for today’s commemoration of Saint Paul’s conversion, the line that stood out was in the account of Paul pleading his case with King Agrippa while at the...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Suppose we could travel back in time to the hillsides surrounding the Sea of Galilee and seek the man we have heard so much about? The one who blesses, forgives, and heals. The man who most astonishingly can raise the dead. Let’s go. There he is now. We hear something...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
On the surface, this coming Sunday’s New Testament readings, from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 and Mark 1:21-28, seem not to have much in common. But they actually touch on a similar theme. First, the 1 Corinthians passage. Paul writes this letter to the Corinthians that...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Shakespeare was on to something: To be or not to be really is the question. Nobody knows that better than Jesus, who preaches a “be attitude” instead of a “not to be attitude” throughout the gospels. “Stand up,” Jesus urges the man lying on a mat beside the healing...
