Today we celebrate the Feast of the Body of Christ.  And traditionally the focal point of this feast is two pronged.  First, of course, a reaffirmation of our belief in…

One of the forces over the long history of Revelation that gave shape and character to the Hebrew people was a strong sense of their own uniqueness.  Unlike the religions…

Today we are celebrating the great and uniquely Christian mystery of Pentecost. It begins with a picture of frightened people, people crippled, imprisoned by fear. Fear of a very deadly…

The first readings over these past few weeks have been a passage from the book of Acts.  And they have pictured that kind of euphoria, that sense of having made…

For the other Gospel writers, in many places it seems to be their intention to present Christ as very much a human being, walking and talking and eating and sleeping…

This Gospel passage underscores what a fragile thing, how easily threatened, our sense of identity is as separate individual human beings, our sense of who we are, why we are….

One of the most common scriptural images that is used to represent all of life, but most particularly the spiritual life, the life of grace, is the image of a…

Over these past few weeks, we have taken long and prayerful looks at the core of historical elements from which our creed springs. Christ, who was a real human being,…

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died and was buried, has risen from the dead. And in his resurrection, all of us, yes, you and me, all humankind, all…

The reading of the Passion is from the Gospel of Matthew. The imagery is simple and brutal. It is that of a human being taunted and tortured by other human…