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‘Tell me to come to You, across the water…’ (Sunday XIX of Ordered time)

We continue with our description of the virtues this weekend. Last Sunday, we looked at the great sin of pride and its corrective virtue humility. This weekend, we take up the vice of avarice, which represents an inordinate craving or desire for the things of this world, specifically for riches and the possibility these provideContinue reading “‘Tell me to come to You, across the water…’ (Sunday XIX of Ordered time)”

Martyrdom! (Sunday XXIII of Ordered time)

“Following after Christ then obviously involves a mortification that results in our denying not only sinfulness, but other human goods that people take for granted, even family. And this is what Christ calls a cross.”

The true measure of holiness (Sunday XXVIII of Ordered time)

There’s something I mention reasonably often: integrity and sincerity. Let us define religion as rite and ritual: the ceremonies that walk us from soon after we are born, through the period of adolescence and early adulthood, that sanctify our ordinary life throughout and that then finally carry us into the tomb. Why do people whoContinue reading “The true measure of holiness (Sunday XXVIII of Ordered time)”

Reading through the second letter of S. Peter

It’s the feast day of the Transfiguration! So, let’s get through the second letter of the Apostle Saint Peter, sent much later in his ministry as bishop of Rome, for he hints at his upcoming death. The Apostle here demonstrates a high theology of grace, the benefit on the Church of her embracing the God-Man,Continue reading “Reading through the second letter of S. Peter”