Heavenly Father, you have spoken. We give you thanks for the gift of the Bible. Give us grace now and always to heed Your word and forsake our sins that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ, the Word, our Redeemer. Amen. I saw a great image floating around the internet this week. It was a photograph of a rather disheveled man. Big scraggly beard, long unkempt hair, a bit of a crazed look in his eyes. The text on the photograph read, “Happy Advent, you brood of vipers!” The … [Read more...]
On becoming a word of God.
“This will give you an opportunity to testify....” Prayer: Father in heaven, gather us by Your Spirit into the passion of Your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, that our life together may be an eternal word that testifies to the Word. Amen. At the very beginning of the second century St. Ignatius of Antioch was being led captive to Rome where he would meet his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts in the Colosseum. On the way, literally to his death, he wrote a few letters, one of which was to the … [Read more...]
The Birthing of a New World
“This is but the beginning of the birth pangs.” By now many if not most of you will have met my family or at least seen them running around the place. The two girls, ages 4 and 2, that sometimes like to crawl under the tables during our potlucks. Yeah, I’m with them. And perhaps you know either because I’ve told you myself or because of your own powers of deduction—taking note of my wife’s expanding mid-section—that we are expecting our third child. Yes, it is amazing to witness what the female … [Read more...]