Throughout Lent, we observe the ancient Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—that passed into the Christian Tradition and were transformed by that Tradition’s encounter with the incarnate, crucified, and
Jesus finishes his discussion of the three Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—with an utterly consistent emphasis on fasting for God and not for human acclaim: “And when you
We now move on in our Lenten series to discuss the third of the Jewish acts of piety that Jesus instructs us to observe: fasting. Actually, to be precise, Jesus
If the first Lenten discipline Jesus discusses in the Sermon on the Mount is almsgiving, the biggest (at least by word count) discipline he discusses is prayer (Matthew 6:5-15). I
Jesus is the Word made flesh, not the Word made word. When God chose to save us, he did it, not by sending Thoughts and Prayers, but by becoming a
The gospel for Ash Wednesday comes to us straight out of the Jewish tradition in which Jesus was born and raised and which his Holy Spirit taught Israel to observe.
…over at The Catholic Weekly: “Jesus on Forgiveness”: At the outset of this Lenten series, I remarked on the truly cosmic dimension of what our Faith teaches about the nature
My eight part series on Lent continues over at The Catholic Weekly, still with no paywall!: If, as we said last time, the point of Lent is to get ready,
Over at The Catholic Weekly, I write: You may have noticed a pattern to my last few articles. We have been looking at the Catholicity of the faith: its capacity
Over at the Catholic Weekly, my second piece in a series on the Catholicity of the Church is up: Last time in this space, we talked about how Jesus met
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