The commitment I envision must be in our Catholic bones…
Source & Summit
Source & Summit: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
From Sunday to Sunday the word of the Risen Lord illuminates our existence, wanting to achieve the end for which it was sent.
Source & Summit: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Sabbath commandment is the longest, and in some ways, the most puzzling. Unlike any of the others it takes quite different forms in the two passages where the Ten Commandments appear.
Source & Summit: The Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross
The second reading today contains one of the earliest Christian hymns (if not the earliest), the hymn of Christ’s kenosis, or self-emptying.
Source & Summit: The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
For those who keep their eyes on the kingdom, it is not only in the future— it is already coming into being in the present.
Source & Summit: The Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
We can, over time, become enthralled in the trance of our work.
Source & Summit: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven’t eaten…
Source & Summit: The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
I cannot achieve contemplation, as some can; and so, having to face and forgive my own failures, I have learned from them both the necessity and wonder of ritual.
Source & Summit: The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Gospel reading today proclaims the story of the Visitation and Mary’s Canticle, the Magnificat contained in Luke.
Source & Summit: The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
At the source of our celebrations is the energy of the Holy Spirit from which we must constantly drink, and this energy is the new time inaugurated by the resurrection.