Sin is attractive I have watched a lot of television shows in my life and a lot more commercials and the one thing I know for certain is that sin is fun often accompanied by happy young women and men and there are no absolutely no consequences for bad behavior If you want to be justified in y

Remember when you were a child how little understanding you had of how things happened if they would happen or when they would happen When you were waiting for something you wanted like Christmas for example excited anticipation fused with a vague sense of time to make waiting a consuming reali

The baby Jesus still grabs our attention and the sweet obsession of the gypsy Yerko in Robertson Davies rsquo s The Rebel Angels for the ldquo Bebby Jesus rdquo reveals that deep attraction After a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where Yerko sees a medieval cr che scene he

The Psalmist prays to God ldquo May your way be known upon earth among all nations your salvation rdquo But how will this come to pass Throughout the Old Testament there are clues that someday in some way God rsquo s covenant will be expanded to welcome not just the descendants of Abraham

Fifth Sunday of Easter (C), April 28, 2013

It took the apostles some time to come to terms with the reality of Jesus raised from the dead but once they accepted it they had to face the challenges of day-to-day life in the context of their newly aroused faith It was this tension between the mundane reality of ordinary life and the glorious