Preachers are fond of challenging their congregations with the question of what they would do if Jesus walked into their Sunday gathering disguised as a homeless person. An Episcopal priest in a small town in Wisconsin inadvertently became a living parable along just those lines.
Father William Myrick intended to dress as the beggar Lazarus for [...]
Archive for January, 2007
‘Not by bread alone’
Posted in Bible, Scripture on January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A while back, Xerox had a TV commercial for their copiers that showed a medieval monk with a commission for several copies of The Bible and he goes into the basement and starts up the Xerox copier. Its humor, of course, lay in the choronological disjuntion of 20th-century technology available to monks in the Middle [...]
‘Laughter, friendship and good red wine’
Posted in Catholic Identity, Gospels on January 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A quote often attributed to British essayist Hilaire Belloc tells us, “Wherever the Catholic sun does shine, there’s laughter, friendship and good red wine.” Whoever coined this phrase may have been inspired by today’s Gospel. We see Jesus at a party with his mother and his friends, and when the wine runs low and the [...]
Returning by a different way
Posted in Epiphany on January 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Epiphany celebrates the proclamation that Jesus Christ is Lord, the manifestation of the Savior, the revelation of God in the world. Isaiah speaks of this epiphany as a light shining in the darkness. In our Gospel we see the magi—astrologers, star-followers—seeking a new light, a new life. Perhaps they are looking for something unusual and [...]
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