The Girl Who Was Saturday

For the most part, these Monday digests are thoughts about the homily of the day before.   However, since yesterday’s Gospel was on the ...

“Because there was no room for them at the inn.” Those words, some of the most poignant in all of Western literature, words which have ...

We interrupt our usual Monday morning considerations for something equally literal . Scene: Subway, inside a Walmart in a midwestern ...

"... We must conclude then that the Divine Master was particularly anxious that His disciples should see in spiritual childhood the nec...

At Mass yesterday, Father drew the familiar connection between the Old Testament injunction, repeated in the New in the Sunday Gospel, t...

At Mass yesterday, Monsignor quoted saying: “God’s ocean is so big, and our boat is so small.”   He called it as “a prayer,” which initial...

There are worse hymns than “The King of Love my Shepherd Is,” a text based closely on Psalm 23 (or 22? the DRV has ruined my sense of ps...

More on the cantata (BWV 90) here ; lyrics here .  "A horrible end will carry you off, you sinful scoffers …" Enough said?  Enou...

I once heard a solid old Jesuit preach a homilette—one of those small sermons that crops up right after the prayers of the faithful or just...

My long-running obsession with justice and judgment (fed by the current dissertation chapter) has made the words pop out everywhere; Scr...

I have been thinking a bit about the odd ending to the reading from Hosea earlier this week. Sow for yourselves justice, reap the ...

At Mass recently we heard a famous passage, recognizable even to many a non-Christian.  Pope Francis has riffed on it, and it is a familiar...

In   an examination of   Guardians of the Galaxy II , one of the Marvel franchise’s more recent movies, I spent some time discussing the mo...

Christians throughout the world recently celebrated the feast of the Epiphany, some on the traditional date of Jan. 6 (the “Twelfth Night” ...

John 1:4: “What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race.” —from the USCCB readings for the...