The second reading for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Romans 8 9 11-13 speaks of the Spirit-Flesh antithesis yet nbsp it is difficult not to see the specter of Mind-Body dualism hovering over the passage which always winds up as bad news for the body The passage as found in the lectio

For the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul I wanted to write about a man who puts the fear of God in you while he encourages you I have always loved the Apostle Paul even though he scares me a little when I read his letters since I fear he might step off of the page sit me down on the bench nbs

It is almost too much to comprehend the ways in which the Body and Blood of Christ are present and real to us and nourish us We have a type of this heavenly food in the manna in the desert which Deuteronomy 8 3 says is food nbsp ldquo which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted in ord

I am honored by Professor Joseph Trabbic rsquo s generous response to me Reading with the Spirit A Response to John Martens and I am in agreement with almost all that he writes nbsp I sometimes wonder if a part of the problem under which I labor in discussions on biblical interpretation is that

One sentence one beautiful sentence at the end of Paul rsquo s second letter to the Corinthians 13 13 and it is clear that the notion of God has been transformed in the life and worship of the early Church The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spiri

I had been waiting weeks to write this blog post but it all came crashing down yesterday I wanted to write a blog post on my beloved Vancouver Canucks who have been in the NHL for 40 years and whom I have followed since I was 9 years old when boys follow their heroes with naivet eacute and chil

Professor Joseph Trabbic has responded to my comments on his blog post Aquinas and Modern Biblical Exegesis I am honored by such a significant response Reading in the Spirit A Response to John Martens and I will read it carefully before responding nbsp On first reading there is much with whi

Is it too late for Pentecost Too late for tongues of fire and the rush of wind Never These are the two major physical realities which are described in the Pentecost account in Acts 2 1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled they were all in one place together And suddenly there came from t

I was able this past weekend to attend a conference at the Monsignor Jerome D Quinn Institute of Biblical Studies at the St Paul Seminary School of Divinity where I also spend a part of my working week The conference The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church The Catholic Seminary

You can tell that the earliest Christians were inspired and not just because Pentecost was about to fall upon them you can tell they were inspired because of their nicknames Some of these were given by Jesus himself Peter for Simon and Sons of Thunder for James and John jump immediately to m