Tag Archives: Birthing
If You Want — A Poem for Christmas Eve
If
you want
the Virgin will come walking down the road
pregnant with the holy,
and say,
“I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart,
my time is so close.”
Then, Read more [...]
Participating in the Labor of Love
In two days we hear the story of Miryam of Nazareth's journey, labor, and giving birth to Jesus. And again we are confronted with the question of how and where we are to join in the labor of love by bringing Christ into our world in deeds of kindness, Read more [...]
The Call to Spiritual Surrogacy
There is a word I love and have mentioned before, a Greek word essential to a Catholic understanding of the Eucharist and, I think, to our celebration of the hallowed events that we celebrate each Advent and Christmas. The word is anamnesis. It refers Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today’s Life-Line is:
That pregnancy and the entry of divine life into the world are inextricably related is, of course, at the heart of the Christian message. . . Like the simple young woman in Nazareth, we may be surprised, at any time, by Read more [...]