Gird your loins
Matthew the Evangelist, in the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent, introduces us to John the Baptist.
Matthew the Evangelist, in the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent, introduces us to John the Baptist.
Divine revelation...proclaims God who mercifully watches the "clownery" of our old selves, but who also — sooner or later — will want to show his love.
Faith is the acknowledgement of one's own helplessness — the belief that one owns nothing, that everything is a gift. It is the awaiting of all gifts from God....
In his new book, "La Force du Silence", Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with serene strength to a world consumed by self-referential chatter and to Christians who have lost their awe of God.
The Kingdom of God that our Lord came to establish upon earth was not merely the elaborate or simple knowledge of the ways of God.
We apprehend and understand Advent as the encounter of man with, the journey of man toward, the Ultimate, toward the Absolute, toward the Lord God.
It was at this time that our Lord began to favor me with a deep sense of his Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, ...
"Things look quite different when viewed from a horizontal perspective."
In Mother Teresa's life (1910–1997), as in the lives of many other saints, we are offered a lived theology.