The Mystery of the Eucharist - WEDDING FEAST OF THE LAMB. Eucharistic...
WEDDING FEAST OF THE LAMB. Eucharistic Theology from a Historical, Biblical, and Systematic Perspective. By Roch A. Kereszty (Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Ave., Chicago, Ill....
View ArticleTheologically Informed Movie - THE THEOLOGY OF THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, by...
THE THEOLOGY OF THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, by Monica Migliorino Miller. New York: Alba House2187 Victory Blvd., Staten Island NY 10314, 2005. 170 pages, $14.95.The film The Passion of the Christ has...
View ArticleA New View of Sacrifice - THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. A Search for an...
THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. A Search for an Acceptable Notion of Sacrifice. By Michael McGuckian, S.J. (Liturgy Training Publications/Hillenbrand Books, 1800 North Hermitage Ave., Chicago, Ill....
View ArticleThe Pope Points to Jesus - On the Way to Jesus Christ. By Joseph Cardinal...
On the Way to Jesus Christ. By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (Ignatius Press, P.O. Box 1339, Ft. Collins, Colo. 80522. 2005), 169 pp. PB $19.95.The articles gathered together in this...
View ArticleJesus Christ is from above - Editorial, December 2010
Editorial, December 2010Romano Guardini was one of the great Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. He is perhaps best known for his penetrating analysis of Jesus in his book called The Lord,...
View ArticleThe sacrament of baptism as a participation in the death of Christ - To be...
To be baptized in Christ is to be baptized into his death as well as his Resurrection.The Easter season is ultimately a time for rebirth, expressed most dramatically at the Easter Vigil by the...
View ArticleBelieving in the Justice of the Cross: Jesus Christ as the Alpha and Omega of...
Adhering with love to the Lord, Victim and Priest, Obedient and Merciful, we embrace him in the real and veiled presence of the broken Bread, and we celebrate the victory against evil, sin, and death....
View ArticleIn the Fullness of Time: The Fullness of Family
The incident related in the Gospel of Luke, celebrated as the “Finding in the Temple,” has always been troubling. It’s the one and only glimpse we’re given into the “secret life” of the Holy Family....
View ArticlePrivate Revelation and the Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St....
The Nature of Private Revelation When thinking about the idea of private revelation, it occurs to one that there is, and has been, a lot of it going around for centuries; and the reason that it is so...
View ArticleScriptural Iconography Communicating Our Vision of God
Literature, whether in the form of narratives, plays, autobiographies, biographies, or histories, is a question-raising work of art for the inquisitive mind seeking understanding. As such, it presents...
View ArticleJesus, the Flowing and Living Water of “Yhwh” - A Biblical Reflection of the...
A Biblical Reflection of the Relation Between Ez 47:1-12 and Jn 5:1-16This essay is a theological reflection of two biblical passages and their implicit allusions in matters of theology and Christian...
View ArticleNew Testament Witness
The faith of the early Christians in Jesus and the Kingdom of his Father constituted them as a community or Church. If it was their shared faith that formed them into a community, who and what they...
View ArticleHow to Read Christology and Still Keep Your Faith
“Christology” is everywhere. That is, if we take its basic etymology and understand it simply as “speech concerning Christ.” People can utter his name flippantly, even blasphemously. Popular films and...
View ArticleReflections on the Glorification of Jesus in the Gospel of John
One of the leitmotifs of the Gospel of John is the theme of glory: how the Son receives glory from the Father, and through this reception, the Son is manifested to us. In fact, the very purpose of the...
View ArticleQuestions Answered
Question: A local priest has, on more than one occasion, preached that Jesus “became a human being.” Is that the same thing as he “became man?” Are the two terms interchangeable? Answer: This question...
View ArticleChristian Life: The Outworking of Christ’s Life Within Us
Christ Ascends the Mountain to Pray by James Tissot The Christian community of faith is born of the grace of God. Grace expresses what God does for us. Just as when we hear of the wisdom of God in the...
View ArticleThe Prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane in the Monothelite Controversy
In this article, originally published in French in the Actes du Symposium sur Maxime le Confesseur (1982), François-Marie Léthel shows how the prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane factored into the...
View ArticleThe Temptations of Christ and the Paschal Triduum - A Reflection
A ReflectionI am not sure what to call this. It is not an exegesis. As a theological reflection, it lacks a certain rigor. It does seem to work as a spiritual/homiletic/liturgical reflection, and...
View ArticleThe Way, The Truth, and The Life - A Blueprint for Theology and Sanity
A Blueprint for Theology and SanityGod’s divine revelation of himself to humanity is brought to its completion, and fullest realization, in the divine person of Jesus Christ, who, throughout sacred...
View ArticleThe Ascension Today
Christianity moves. As we ponder so often in the Gospels, Christ gathers and sends out, he forms and confers a mission. The mystery of the Lord’s ascension into heaven manifests the grand vertical...
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