Now it was Lent, and we were just forty days from Easter. Heavy rains and rising temperatures washed the snow away, and on Ash Wednesday, when I drove to the church, the sky was crowded with clouds seemingly blowing on different winds—heavy cumulus clouds, and behind and between them lighter . . . . Continue Reading »
The new creation is signified by water because the first creation came through water. Continue Reading »
My journey to baptism started with a plunge into water. My wife and I were awakened late at night by an odd sound. We stumbled downstairs to investigate, but finding nothing amiss, went back to our room. Then we heard the crash. We jumped up and peered out the windows, but saw only the dark and . . . . Continue Reading »
I was a priest for three years before I realized I had never been validly baptized. Continue Reading »
Being “amazed” by the Eucharist is probably not all that common these days. But Holy Mass should be all amazement, all the time. Continue Reading »
Desiderius Erasmus, incredulous and finally exasperated in his debates with Martin Luther, once nicknamed the great Reformer Doctor Hyperbolicus. In Erasmus’s view, Luther could not resist taking every argument to extremes. We can only imagine what Erasmus would have said of the Baptists, . . . . Continue Reading »
Baptism effects a fundamental change in who we are, what we can “see,” and what we must do. Continue Reading »
Once we start thinking about baptism in the matrix between old and new, our horizon broadens. Continue Reading »
The logic of liberalism has seeped into the faithful’s understanding of God and his Church through every imaginable pore. Continue Reading »
The new “Affirmation of Baptismal Faith” erodes the Church of England’s claim to bear witness to the one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. Continue Reading »
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