On December 3, 2021, the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas gave me a belated retirement party — belated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These were my remarks. As some of you know, my project this fall at the Collegeville Institute at St. John’s has been to start a book on Catholic social…
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Praying the Our Father –
a Lenten self-examination
Lenten reflection 16 February 2016 Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 6:7-15 A fine book on ethical teaching in the New Testament bears the title of The Great Reversal. While God’s saving work always fulfills the deepest longings that our Creator has written on our hearts, that work must often reverse our superficial, misguided, and short-sighted longings. With…
Feast of the Holy Family
(Advent/Christmas relection)
Lectionary readings: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14, Colossians 3:12-21, Luke 2:41-52 Set against the background of our preliminary readings from Sirach and Colossians, today’s gospel reading is almost playful. Pious interpretation may hesitate to suggest that the twelve-year-old Jesus, who had lingered in the temple to begin practicing the craft of rabbinical debate, was teasing his anxious…