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Reflect Somewhere towards the middle of Wendell Berry’s beautiful novel Jayber Crow, there is a beatific vision that seems utterly transcendent, and touchingly humane. Jayber gets
Reflect “Instead they gave me poison for my food; and for my thirst they gave me vinegar” (Ps 69:22). How many times have I done this?
Reflect Many of us may recall the old English teacher adage: Show, don’t tell. In some sense, Jesus is saying the same thing when he says: “Even
How does the Parable of the Talents from Matthew’s Gospel relate to our own lives?
We always need to have our eyes open and our hearts ready. We never know when we meet strangers that we could be encountering (or even entertaining) angels.
The first to hear of Jesus’ birth are not priests, scribes, or emperors, but humble shepherds—ordinary people.
The Holy Family knew the hardship of being refugees, outsiders dependent on the kindness and generosity of others. Mary, Joseph, and Jesus—in this sense—are icons of the refugee, orphaned from their homeland, a new Israel.
