TODAY is the Feast of All Saints. The gospel reading on this Feast Day is fixed. Every year it is the same passage: Matthew 5: 1-12a -- The Beatitudes.
In 2008-2009, The Human & the Holy (H&H) community spent the better part of a year studying Read more [...]
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly, to love kindly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
~ Micah 6:8
The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]
and now I guess notes to you as well (for what they're worth).
~ TELL Story of grade schoolers writing to Dorothy Day asking her how she could see Christ in the destitute of NY City and her answer:
It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is Read more [...]
SAD NEWS came out yesterday. Rachel Held Evans died early Saturday morning, May 4, 2019. She was 37 years old, happily married to husband Dan with whom she had two young sons. A gifted writer, she was a New York Times best-selling author, a sought Read more [...]
ANOTHER SHOOTING AND KILLING IN A SYNAGOGUE IN THE USA, this one in Poway, CA. One is left to wonder in the history of humanity, how many days has the sun set and the moon risen when a human didn't intentionally kill another human. And I wonder of Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
It is not an enviable position, this Christian thing. Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Christian spirituality, that is, living the Christ-life, involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love wherever we are, in the full awareness of our own contingency and imminent death.
As I posted yesterday, retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen died this past Sunday. He led the Catholic archdiocese of Seattle from 1975 - 1991. From the moment I met him, I found him to be impressive. He was the least power-driven Read more [...]