Why I Do What I Do — An Advent Reflection

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

E-mman-u-el [ ih-man-yoo-uhl ] from Hebrew ʿimmānū'ēl “God is with us” I was listening the other day to an interview with Chris Herren who is in his mid-forties. He’s a humble, insightful, and articulate man. And he’s doing such Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 4. Compassion

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Remember this: All suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered it first. ~ Meister Eckhart The love of our neighbor in all Read more [...]

The Skin-to-Skin of Divine Love

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today we celebrate the incarnation of love in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In verse 1 of the prologue to his Gospel, the Evangelist John famously writes: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Greek Read more [...]

Where Christ Is Present in This World

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, His place is with the others Read more [...]

The Unbecoming of God & the Incarnation of Love

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity. from the Collect for The Nativity of the Lord At the Mass of the Day The mystery of the incarnation we celebrate at Christmas, no less than Read more [...]

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

"Emmanuel (God-with-us), to whom we pleadingly sing “O come, O come,” is the human enfleshment of the one same divine presence that has been from the beginning but to which humans have a habit of becoming blind. Christ makes God present in the Read more [...]

Where Are You?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

"If you hallow this life you meet the living God " ~ Martin Buber In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when Read more [...]

Incarnation: Bigger than Baby Jesus

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. (Jn. 1:14) O Come, O come, Emmanuel. (19th Century Carol) Let’s be clear about one thing: Christmas is more than God becoming a little baby. At the heart of Christmas is the saving Read more [...]

The Carol of the Season: “I Am with You”

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's post is featured in THE WRITTEN WORD: The Carol of the Season: "I Am with You" Read more [...]

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