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Let Him enter! (Sunday IV of Advent)

“…why the Holy One took flesh and walked as a Man among them. And so we celebrate Christmas as everything else at the foot of the Cross. Christmas had to be, so that Good Friday could be.”

Reading through the book of the Apocalypse of S. John (aka. Revelation)

And finally, here is my last short essay on the books of the Bible, part of a marathon read through the entire Knox English version of Holy Scripture, a copy of which I acquired when I worked at the cathedral in Nottingham. Monsignor Knox was a twentieth-century Anglican clergyman who became a Catholic priest, following an intellectualContinue reading “Reading through the book of the Apocalypse of S. John (aka. Revelation)”

Reading through the Song of Songs

This is a difficult one. The Song of Songs is probably the hardest to understand in its place in the canon of Sacred Scripture – even more so than Ecclesiastes. It seems to be a series of love letters thrown back and forth between various couples, with no obvious point. Could it be taken as wordsContinue reading “Reading through the Song of Songs”