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...
23 Aug Reflections on Christ and Suffering
How does God show Himself? He shows Himself in Elijah, recognized as a man of God, and He shows Himself in Christ, recognized as a prophet and as a visitation of...
22 Aug Reflections on Incarnation
The Word became flesh. We reflect on this, perhaps, too little. But at the very beginning of the third century, somewhere between 203 and 206, the theologian Tertullian, called the father of...
18 Aug Reflections on the Risen Christ’s Appearances
The sense of our Lord’s post-Resurrection appearances throughout the New Testament is intensely paradoxical: we can say, in fact, that their sense is that they make no sense. Now we need to...
16 Aug Reflections on God and Man
Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am’. Jesus’ words here are a revelation of His transcendence as God. But they are also a...