Life-Line

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christ Climbed Down Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christian spirituality, that is, living the Christ-life, involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love wherever we are, in the full awareness of our own contingency and imminent death. ~ Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: This is not going to be your usual funeral homily, but Archbishop Hunthausen was not your usual bishop, was he? And I know: a homily is supposed to break open the scriptures and shed light on them. But Archbishop Hunthausen’s Read more [...]

The Incarnation: Oblation and Obligation

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more. ~ Matthew 2: 18 ~ As you may know, the shapers of the Christian calendar of saints and the liturgical 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 [...]

Our First Vocation

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

O love that fires the sun keep me burning. ~ Bruce Cockburn The man, bruised and filthy, chained by his feet and wrists to the wall, smiled to himself. Seeing this, the guard barked, “What are you smiling at?” The prisoner said softly, “You Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Extravagant

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Extravagant [ik-strav-uh-guh nt] After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions Read more [...]

BTW — Christmas Implicates Us

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It is important, not incidental, to remember that, like Advent, Christmas is a season. Still preserved in monastic communities and in the anomalous local church, the awareness of and participation in the twelve days of Christmas that are laid out like 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 [...]

Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

From Advent 2009: The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Incarnation

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

The Incarnation: Oblation and Obligation

The Unbecoming of God & the Incarnation of Love

Our First Vocation

A Word to the Wise — Extravagant

BTW — Christmas Implicates Us

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

Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity