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 the Cross, and is considering the words of the Incarnate Son to His Father: My God, my God, why have...
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 words. In order to begin to understand them, we should put them in relation to another passage in the New...
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 by. Zacchaeus is seized by curiosity, and raises himself up to satisfy it. And so he changes where he stands,...
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 us that Christ set His face towards this horizon - meaning that He would not be diverted from it, but...
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 sight of God there is no parity between life and death: in relation to God life and death are not...