No book, not even an inspired one, interprets itself. Humans do that. So when Philip asked the Ethiopian eunuch if he understood the meaning of the passage from Isaiah he
As we saw in Chapter 8, Jesus taught the Church to read the Old Testament with the assurance that Scripture had a literal sense, but also more than literal senses.
Another vital likeness between drama and the Faith is… faith. The theatre asks us for a willing suspension of disbelief—in other words, an act of faith. That’s not exceptional. That’s
Catholic worship, like Jewish worship before it, is deeply liturgical. Liturgy means “the work of the people” and is the great communal and ritual act of self-offering to God whereby
So far I have listed negative reasons for worshipping God: namely, the evils we avoid by doing so. But the overwhelming reason to worship God erupts in majesty from the
Another reason God commands we learn to worship him is to save his creatures from our inveterate habit of “unduly demanding of them something which they, in their smallness, cannot
My mother-in-law, one of the wisest women I have ever known, summed up the cheat of idolatry this way: “You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.”
The Psalms speak of the whole of creation adoring and glorifying God. Sun, moon, stars, fire, hail, snow, frost, wind, mountains, hills, fruit trees, cedars, wild beasts, sea monsters, cattle,
Another other thing that causes a real difficulty for some people is the question, “Why does God command our worship at all? Is this not a barbaric view of God
The Creed says of the Holy Spirit, “With the Father and the Son he is adored and glorified.” However much controversy may have surrounded the procession of the Spirit from
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