Given a public health crisis that makes gathering in a closed space for an hour dangerous, particularly for anyone who is more at risk from COVID-19, how will the Church teach about and practice its call to gathered worship, to...
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That’s the sense in which this arrival is, for all the menacing irony we may read into the hosannas of the fickle crowd, a victorious entry. He enters into the very depths of humanity like one taking a throne. Setting aside his comfort, safety, and eventually his life, emptying himself, he has chosen to be the king who stays with his people, no matter what they do. This is God’s glory already revealed.
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This is a teachable moment, which is to say it is a moment of learning, maybe even a moment of...
Read MoreSixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 15:15-20 Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 1 Cor 2: 6-10 Matthew 5: 17- 37 Our readings today face us with a timely call to welcome the law of God as a life-giving gift, as the site where we...
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(This is the third in a series of posts about Bishop McElroy’s speech last Monday.) A few...
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