At the heart of every Mass lies the consecration. Bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ. But if we are to try to think about this, there is something we have to bear in mind from the beginning. What exists before the consecration and what...
According to the first Epistle of St John, [in] this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the expiation for our sins. What this tells us is that God’s heart is already turned towards us, in advance of expiation...
According to the prophet Jeremiah, “the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah … I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their...
There are a lot of schlusses in German literature — Schillers and Schillingses and Schlafs and Schefflers and Schimmelmanns and Schallenbergs and Schallücks and Schickeles and Schleiermachers and Schlageters and Schiebelers and Schlegels. I can remember having difficulty telling them apart when, in High School, I was trying to learn...
In his first Epistle St John writes about the hidden ambiguities that haunt our Christian lives, the interior uncertainties about our own integrity that can afflict us with uneasiness; and he shows us a way through this sometimes paralyzing pattern of self-accusation, turning us away from preoccupation with ourselves and...