homily
December 27, 2020
“I gave thanks to the Lord that I was separated from my father,” she said. “I was comforted by his absence.”
July 3, 2021
I’ve told this story before, about a monk named Pachomius, one of the early fathers of monasticism.
July 18, 2021
“Before he begins to preach,” St. Augustine taught the would-be preacher, “he should raise his thirsty soul to God in order that he may give forth what he shall drink, or pour out what shall fill him.”[1]
August 28, 2021
It’s an image which has always haunted me, the first image of John Bunyan’s classic work, The Pilgrim’s Progress; haunting, as I said, but also strangely comforting.