Fourteenth Sunday: The Inadequacy of Relativism and Random Chance
A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . . and, be it said, the difficulty of... Read more.
The Holy Eucharist and ‘Being There’: Much of Life is All About Showing Up
Simple facts can often be significant . . . and often unadverted to. Consider the Last Supper. Obviously, the Apostles had to be present in order to participate... Read more.
Credo in Unum et Trium Deum
Two creeds are in common use among us: the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, which we use on liturgical occasions, and is a propos especially on Trinity Sunday.... Read more.
Fundamentalism A, B and C
A. The slogan of the Protestant Reformation was “sola Scriptura,” that is, a conviction that the Bible and the Bible alone contains God’s revelation to his... Read more.
Ascension, Church and Magisterium
When was the Church founded? Many would say that it emerged from the opened side of Jesus on the cross, like a new Eve from the new Adam. Others point to Pentecost... Read more.
C.S. Lewis’ ‘Mere Christianity’ as ‘Mere Puritanism’
In a letter of 11 December 1944 C. S. Lewis mentions five “shining examples of human holiness”. Along with Saint Francis, George Herbert, George MacDonald,... Read more.
He Is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much... Read more.
Good Friday: Crux fidelis
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis; nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine, dulce lignum, dulci clavo, dulce pondus sustinens! Flecte ramos,... Read more.
Passion Sunday
The liturgical use of Scripture is by juxtaposition, i.e., an Old Testament text will be placed beside—juxtaposed to—one from the New Testament, the former being... Read more.
True Christian Tolerance
In Lent we pledge ourselves to acquire virtue. The one, perhaps the only, virtue universally honoured today is tolerance. It is a useful Lenten exercise, therefore,... Read more.