In God, the Holy Spirit is the love that unites the Father and the Son. And when the Father and the Son send the Spirit into the world, it is so that we also may come to share in that love. We share in it through being conformed to the...
On the Road to Emmaus the sequel to the Resurrection is already underway. Christ is risen, He is manifesting Himself to His disciples, but disconcertingly, enigmatically. Something prevents them from recognizing Him according to the ordinary standards of recognition. Instead He shows Himself indirectly, in ways that evade their grasp....
When the disciples first see the Risen Jesus among them, we are told that they are startled and frightened, because what they think they can see isn’t Jesus Himself, but a spirit. It is as if seeing cannot penetrate all the way to reality, but remains frozen, unconnected and apprehensive....
Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in His side, I will not believe. In this Gospel verse there is a movement from seeing to touching. For Thomas it is as if...
Origen, to Heraclides: “Our Lord and Saviour is in his relation to the Father and God of the universe not one flesh, not one spirit, but what is much higher than flesh and spirit, one God.” It was Bishop Heraclides who needed setting straight, in the papyri found at Toura in Egypt,...