Readings: • 1 Kngs 3:5, 7-12 • Psa 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130 • Rom 8:28-30 • Mt 13:44-52 How good are you and I at recognizing something that is valuable, even priceless? That question […]
Readings: • Wis 12:13, 16-19 • Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 • Rom 8:26-27 • Mt 13:24-43 What is the Kingdom of God? How does it come about? And how will it grow? These are some […]
Readings: • Isa 55:10-11 • Psa 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14 • Rom 8:18-23 • Matt 13:1-23 This Sunday’s readings each refer, in some way, to creation and the natural world. And each also reveals something […]
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, 1947), distinguished between two types of paradox. […]
Bradley J. Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College since 1999, is a prolific author and a good friend. He has written books on Russell Kirk, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Dawson, Charles Carroll, and drumming legend […]
Readings: • Acts 12:1-11 • Psa 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18 • Mt 16:13-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was chosen by Christ after he […]
Readings: • 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a • Psa 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 • Rom 6:3-4, 8-11 • Mt 10:37-42 A great paradox—perhaps the paradox—of Christian belief and spirituality is that true and everlasting life comes through […]
On the Readings for Sunday, June 24, 2012, The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist […]
Readings: • Jer 20:10-13 • Psa 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35 • Rom 5:12-15 • Matt 10:26-33 Recently, while watching a basketball game on television, I was horrified when a commercial came on that was completely inappropriate […]
Readings: • Ex 19:2-6a • Psa 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rom 5:6-11 • Mt 9:36-10:8 One description of the Church that is emphasized in the documents of the Second Vatican Council is “the people of […]
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