John Foley, SJ
The holidays had and have a big footprint. That is why I wonder about the Church having placed the feast of the Holy Family in between Christmas and New Years. Mightn’t this put family into the shade?
Ron Rolheiser
Why is there such a resistance in us regarding being aware of the great presence? Why our habitual refusal of the awareness of God? Why do we prefer to walk alone, without God?
Eleonore Stump
Here’s the undeniable humiliation of having to wait. A person who waits knows that what he wants depends on things outside his own control. Having to wait brings home to him his vulnerability and neediness.
Gerald Darring
Perhaps it is no accident that in this age of the universally recognized disintegration of the family, the world is also experiencing a breakup into rich and poor, developed and underdeveloped, the privileged and the marginal.
Anne Osdieck
Why do you think Sirach says that good things happen to you when you honor your parents (prayers heard, sins atoned, long life, made happy by children)?
J. Janda
How could
Joseph …
fashion a journey
which had neither
the sound nor feel
of what he had known