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Consumerism is a restless spirit that is never content with any particular material thing. In this sense, consumerism has some affinities with Christian asceticism, which counsels a certain detachment from material things. The difference is that, in consumerism, detachment continually moves us from one product to another, whereas in Christian life, asceticism is a meansContinue reading

The Journey of the Church into the Dimension of the Kingdom

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word ‘dimension’ because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies ‘come alive’Continue reading “The Journey of the Church into the Dimension of the Kingdom”

“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.” J.R.R. Tolkien

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. Oswald Chambers

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. William Blake

God is the god of the humble, the miserable, the afflicted, the oppressed, the desperate, and those who have been brought to nothing. Martin Luther

On the Passover

Tell me angel, what deterred you? The slaughter of the sheep, or the life of the Lord? You were deterred because you witnessed the mystery of the Lord accomplish in the sheep. The life of the Lord in the sacrifice of the sheep. The figure of the Lord in the death of the Sheep. Continue reading “On the Passover”

Though you do not see him, you believe, and in believing there is unspeakable joy. Polycarp

You, O Christ my Savior, have become for me the path of life which leads to the father. There is but one path, and it is my joy, and at the end of it is the heavenly kingdom. Ephraim the Syrian

Boniface attempted, in the place called Gaesmere, while the servants of God stood by his side, to fell a certain oak of extraordinary size, which is called, by an old name of the pagans, the Oak of Thor. And when in the strength of his steadfast heart he had cut the lower notch, there wasContinue reading