Confidence in God makes Jesus sinless for us. Hope in humanity, in ourselves, does the same for Mary.

Second Wednesday of Advent

However it happens, at some point, you will realize that you have no idea where you are, and that there are a lot of unfriendly beasts out there in the world.

A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.