How strange and awesome is the coming of our Lord ( Read more... )

Numerous places in the New Testament speak of the Lord Jesus shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins ( Read more... )

Today’s Lenten reading comes from Thomas Merton’s Theology of Creativity. As I will be on retreat beginning 5:00 tonight until Easter Sunday night, this will be my final Lenten posting. Blessings to all on this holy Triduum:

The creativity of the Christian person must be seen in relation to the creative vocation of the new Adam, the mystical ( Read more... )

Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration. It is also the one year anniversary of my diagnosis of cancer. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but it is so amazing to me the way each of my steps along the way of my diagnosis and treatment coincided with a great liturgical feast of the Church. I find this to be especially poignant today, given the ( Read more... )

Today's readings are from Dan 3:14-20,91-92,95, Dan 3:52-56, John 8:31-42In the language of antiquity, before the time of Christ and for some time after, redemption was the language used for setting slaves free. For a slave to gain his freedom, a wealthy benefactor would have to pay a certain price and then the slave would be made free. The slave ( Read more... )

In this post we will look at Pope John Paul II’s General Audience of September 26, 1979. In this audience again the Holy Father continues to build a solid foundation upon which he will build this theology of the body. He continues to explore the creation account of Genesis 2, and speaks about how the redemption of the body offered by Christ serves ( Read more... )