30 Aug Reflections on the Resurrection
He is not here ...
27 Aug Reflections on the Trinity
The Trinitarian God is of course essentially and permanently mysterious. We cannot grasp or comprehend the Divine Persons in this life, nor even in the life to come: Heaven indeed promises us an unparalleled intimacy with Them, but this intimacy will not arise from the fact that we will encompass Them, but rather...
26 Aug Student Comments on the Map Year: II
The Map Year program was, for me, a chance to experience a fuller breadth of both the human and, by extension, the Church's intellectual tradition over the past two centuries. This year, aptly called a "humanities year" was anthropological in its outlook, and was further an anthropology tailored not only to a seminarian's self-understanding , but to an understanding of the people and...
25 Aug Reflections on the Existence of God
Not how the world is, but that it is - this is the mystery. Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose words these are, was perhaps the greatest, and certainly one of the most influential, of twentieth century philosophers. He wasn't what you'd call a believer. And yet I want to develop the insight his words convey....
24 Aug Reflections on the Ascension
It is in the wake of the Ascension that we always and everywhere awake and find ourselves. The liturgy expresses this, since it is the Ascended Christ who acts liturgically and to Whom, liturgically, we turn. But the Ascension itself conditions more than our liturgical life; it conditions our life as such. Humanity...