Reading sacred Scripture or watching a televised Eucharist can be powerful meditations, but neither rises to the level of sacrament, the mystery by which Christ promises his presence to his church.

God is ever ancient, ever new, ever the same, but we were created to wax and to wane.

There are two marks that tell us we are in the presence of something, someone, not ourselves: desire and fear.

The disciples of Jesus were not pursuing ideas as they were coming to love and to understand a person.  

Consider the countless souls, those alive today and all those in generations past, who have never been given an opportunity to respond to the Gospel the church preaches.

Once you allow a notion of yours, however right and righteous, to separate you from the community, you have become the victim of sin. You are not its solution.

The three are equally telling: here is the promised Messiah; here is the very presence of God; and here is the one who has come among us to die.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Holy Family

When we come to Eucharist at Christmas, we believe that time warps in upon itself. Christ is born today, is baptized today, dies today, rises today.

What does it mean to bear a son? What did it mean for her, and what does it mean for us?