The land is all alight with Easter colors,Tulips in pink and orange bending overThe clumps of daffodils just past first flowering.Even the tips of lilacs, rough and brittle,Begin to round themselves with pregnant green.But all this sinks, today, beneath new weightAs sudden blooms of white descend in . . . . Continue Reading »
And so, we’ve come to this,a new beginning in an end,and celebrate the way we didjust days ago, gathered closein that small room, what wedid not then know—that He would go, but come again,this morning, when we’d lostalmost all hope. We’d bowedour heads, confessed to sin,determined to go . . . . Continue Reading »
Clear water on a Catskill stream spills,flowing down a smooth rock faceinto a pool shaped like a cup held withinhigh rounded walls. A Chinese painting,think of that, fine brush strokes formingfissured cracks from which green fernsunfurl lace while light falls featheredthrough new leaves as I stand, . . . . Continue Reading »
The wind shears through hardwoods, then rain brings down the leaves here, eight thousand miles east oftheir archipelago of service, maplike now in its remoteness. Woodsmoke censes the air in the hermitage they . . . . Continue Reading »
Christ's death shows that God also reigns over the silence. Continue Reading »
Remember Jesus’s suffering for us, for it is when we remember God, that God remembers us. Continue Reading »
Francis X. Maier joins the podcast to discuss his new book True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church. Continue Reading »
The Holy Spirit moves in the streets of Seville during Holy Week. Continue Reading »
Easter faith summons us to think of ourselves as creatures capable of eternal life, and we can experience that life now. Continue Reading »
When sex is stripped of its significance, then rape stops being a uniquely dreadful crime. Continue Reading »
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