One of the things that always strikes me as I read through the Gospels is how close a parallel there so frequently is between the teaching of the Gospel and…

Scriptural scholars call this Gospel passage the “Hymn of Jubilation” because in it Christ quite literally rejoices in the Father’s plan for salvation.  He praises the Father’s decision to hide…

In today’s Gospel the opening line sounds harsh.  “Anyone who loves father or mother, son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”  It almost sounds as though…

I suppose there are few feelings more uncomfortable than the feeling of being pointless.  It’s unsettling because, deep down, we know it’s not right.  We know that human life is…

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….