John Foley, SJ
I used to keep second-guessing myself on every gift I shopped for. Look there, I would say, that is the perfect gift for this person, just right! But wait a minute, they don’t have a fireplace mantle to sit it on. Or, will it go with their décor?
Ron Rolheiser
Reticence and Secrecy as Virtue
We derive both the words mystery and mystic from the Greek word myein which is a word that’s used to describe what we are left looking at when a flower closes its petals or a person closes his or her eyelids.
Eleonore Stump
Sometimes other people keep us in the dark for their own purposes. But we can keep ourselves in the dark, too, because we cannot face our sins and weaknesses. We do not want to see what we are.
Gerald Darring
Christmas is the great annual renewal of our being a Church filled with wonder at the nearness of God. The nearer we are to our God, the nearer we should become to those lowly ones who are God’s special ones.
Anne Osdieck
When Jesus came, God spoke directly to us. Does he still speak to us today through the Holy Spirit “whom he richly poured out on us”?
J. Janda
Angela who
always leaves
her pew to touch
other hands
as gently as a
snowflake