07 Dec Reflections on the Atheism of God
For John Bentley Mays, 1941-2016, Canadian Art and Architecture Critic Christianity, G. K. Chesterton said, is the only religion in which God Himself appears as an atheist. Chesterton is speaking of...
05 Dec Reflections on Division
In St Luke’s Gospel, Christ speaks not of peace but of division. And He says that this division is something which He has come to bring about. These are certainly disconcerting...
02 Dec Reflections on the Coming of Salvation
Zacchaeus, conscious of being too small to see, runs on ahead and climbs a sycamore tree so as to be able to catch a glimpse of Jesus as He passes...
30 Nov Reflections on Misunderstanding
The Gospels sometimes tells stories of misunderstanding. The horizon of misunderstanding in St. Luke's Gospel is Christ’s journey to Jerusalem - the journey into suffering, abandonment and death. St Luke tells...
28 Nov Reflections on the Living and the Dead
Now He is not God of the dead but of the living; for all live to Him. What do these words of Christ tell us? They tell us that in the...