Tag Archives: Mary
What is Christmas?
It is the Yes of Mary to the Yes of God
inviting the Yes of us to the Yes of God.
It is the surrogacy of love
giving birth to new possibilities.
It is the magnificat of Mary’s hospitality
undoing the homelessness of hope.
It is the face of the 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 [...]
Remembering Merton
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business.
What we are asked to do is to love,
and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors Read more [...]