07 Jun Reflections on the Logic of the Gift
The logic of the gift pervades Christ’s farewell discourse to his disciples in the Gospel of John. Ten times in as many lines, Christ speaks to us explicitly of what...
05 Jun Reflections on Living in Christ
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also. In these words, in a mysterious...
31 May Reflections on Forgiveness
The parable of the prodigal son insistently and rigorously expounds for us the meaning of forgiveness. The meaning is there in the two words which forgiveness conjoins: the word fore...
24 May Reflections on the Certainty of Faith
St Thomas Aquinas, reasoning about Faith, asks at one point a very fundamental question: how is it that we believe at all? For we don't, Aquinas insists, see what Faith...
15 May Reflections on Another Kind of Seeing
He who has seen me has seen the Father. How is it possible to see one person by seeing another? Common sense would seem to say that either they must...