Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time — Year A Geography can have theological significance. Caesarea Philippi is not a Jewish town. It’s intriguing that this is where Jesus asks the apostles who people say that he is. The city sits at the foot of Mount Hermon at the northern end of modern Israel. Water flows from … Continue reading Who do You Say That I Am?
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” These words are another option for the priest’s greeting at the beginning of Mass. This greeting comes straight from Paul in 2 Cor13:13. The Eastern churches had been using it for some … Continue reading A Hello That Hands You God’s Own Life
As a credentialed amateur greetologist — a field I invented roughly fifteen minutes ago in preparation for writing this — I can confirm that humanity has developed approximately four billion ways to acknowledge another person’s existence, and my family, through sheer determination and a complete absence of self-awareness, has attempted every last one of them. … Continue reading Headaches and the Theology of ‘The Lord Be With You’
The Joy of the Gospel 