Posted in Easter, Good Shepherd, Gospels, Lectionary, New Testament, Old Testament, Scripture on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps one of the most endearing images in popular religious art is that of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Children immediately grasp this image, indentifying with the cute lamb held in Jesus’ loving arms. In fact, this image lends its name to a method of religious education called the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. Based [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible study, Scripture on April 27, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s the rare Friday evening that I curl up with a Vatican document, but I suspect I’ll be doing just that today. The Vatican released the Lineamenta for the upcoming world synod of bishops today. They missed the feast of St. Mark by two days. That would have been a nice touch. More when [...]
Posted in Easter, Gospels, Lectionary, New Testament, Resurrrection, Scripture on April 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Today’s Gospel pulls together themes and echoes of the many stories of Jesus’ ministry in Galilee: the call of the fishermen to be the first disciples, the multiplication of bread and fish to feed the crowds, the miraculous catch of fish, the meal shared with Jesus, the breaking of the bread. These are the [...]
Posted in Easter, Social Justice, Spirituality on April 22, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s a lovely day to celebrate Earth Day. The birds are in full chorus outside my windows (open at last after all the cold and rain we’ve been having) and the rooster was awake around 4 this morning. I live as close to the natural world as I can in the middle of a big [...]
Posted in Easter, Gospels, Lectionary, Resurrrection on April 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Happy Easter! The retail world has moved on to other events and is looking to the next holiday, perhaps the Fourth of July. The chocolate rabbits are long gone and we’re tired of eating hard-boiled eggs. But as a faith community we’re just beginning to unpack the mystery of the resurrection. Like any life-changing event, [...]
Posted in Catholic Identity on April 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I ended up with this after a visit to The Ironic Catholic. It’s raining and 44 in Cincinnati and I needed a laugh, which I.C. provides in spades. While you’re visiting over there, be sure to check out the Peeps Conclave.
You’re St. Justin Martyr!
You have a positive and hopeful attitude toward the world. You [...]
Posted in Easter, Gospels, Holy Week, Lectionary, Liturgy, Triduum on April 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Sometimes when we put everything we have into anticipating a great event—planning, preparing, hoping, dreaming—the event itself can sometimes seem almost anticlimactic, as though it couldn’t live up to the hype. Brides and grooms have said this of their wedding days, when after months and months of planning every perfect detail, they have little recollection [...]
Posted in Gospels, Holy Week, Liturgy, Old Testament, Prophets, Triduum on April 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I went to the Tenebrae service at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral last night. This has become my personal tradition for entering into the Triduum. I first experienced it back in the late 1980s at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame, where it was sung after the Mass on the Lord’s Supper [...]
Posted in Gospels, Holy Week, Lectionary, Liturgy, Palm Sunday, Passion Narratives, Scripture on April 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Perhaps you’ve seen these Nationwide Insurance commercials: the partying college student is suddenly a balding man with a mortgage; the baby in a car seat is a teenager by the next intersection, the father pushing a toddler on a swing is suddenly knocked down by the swing now occupied by a hefty adolescent. Their slogan [...]
