On faith, prayer, and the quiet journey of the spiritual life.
The Easter Octave is one of the great gifts of the Church's liturgical calendar. For eight days, the Church celebrates as if Easter Sunday never ended — because, in a profound theological sense, it has not. Each day of this week carries the full weight of the Resurrection, flooding ordinary time...
Read reflectionThere is something quietly extraordinary about the way this gospel begins. The disciples have witnessed the Resurrection. They have seen the empty tomb, received the breath of the Holy Spirit from the Risen Christ, a...
Read more →There is something striking about the way Jesus enters the room in today's gospel. The disciples are in the middle of recounting the Emmaus story — still breathless, still trying to make sense of what happened on the...
Read more →There is a particular kind of grief that keeps moving. It does not sit still. It walks. It rehearses. It replays events in a loop, searching for something that might make sense of what has been shattered. This is exa...
Read more →There is a moment in John's Gospel so intimate, so quietly shattering, that it has stopped readers in their tracks for two thousand years. Mary Magdalene stands outside the empty tomb, weeping. Angels speak to her. T...
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