When the Galilean official whose son is ill first approaches Jesus, does he already believe? In fact it is difficult to say, and probably not very important to decide. Like the rest of us, we can say this man is learning to believe. Something draws him. We are told that when...
When we turn from prayer in order to attend to the needs of others, St Philip Neri speaks of leaving Christ for Christ. What this means, he explains, is that we deprive ourselves of spiritual sweetness in order to gain souls. In light of this we might perhaps say that...
“And at the end of eight days, when He was circumcised, He was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.” So much is comprised in these few words, and especially in the circumcision, which is related with such apparent neutrality. In the strange...
The Resurrection St John invites us to see what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. The love given us by the Father is the Son, and it is in our conformity to the Son that we are made children of the Father. But...
Speaking of the Word Who was to become flesh, St John tells us that, in the beginning, all things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. From this we can see that it is through the Word that God gives us the world....