Christmas
April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
December 17, 2019
“Bustle does not make a festival; on the contrary, it can spoil one.”
December 27, 2019
I hope you’re still saying Merry Christmas! At least a few more days!
December 26, 2020
This Sunday is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Appropriate just after Christmas Day, the Church asks us to contemplate the first Christian family, and to let the light of that Holy Family illumine our families.
December 27, 2020
“I gave thanks to the Lord that I was separated from my father,” she said. “I was comforted by his absence.”
