Gospel Echoes: The Law Fulfilled in Love
When we hear Jesus say in today’s Gospel, “I have not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them,” it can cause a moment of hesitation. […]
Gospel Echoes: Do We Believer That Unjust Systems Are Permanent?
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds the Sadducees that God is “not God of the dead, but of the living.” His words challenge every attempt to limit God’s power to transform […]
Gospel Echoes: The Math You Do Before You Know You’re Doing It
You walk into a room and before you’ve taken off your coat, you’ve already done the math. Where the important person is sitting. Where the empty chair places you in […]
Gospel Echoes: The Goodbye You Never Got to Finish
There is a particular way people hug at airports. Tighter than usual. A half-second longer than necessary. Something in the body that knows even when the mind is already thinking […]
Gospel Echoes: The Altar You Built to Something You Couldn’t Name
Somewhere in you there is an altar you built to something you couldn’t name. Maybe you know what I mean. You’ve sat in a church or a forest or a […]
Gospel Echoes: What Do We Do with the Ache?
What do we do with the ache that does not leave, even after we have prayed, hoped, and tried to move on? What do we do when life scatters us, […]
Gospel Echoes: When What Holds You Up Starts Holding You Back
A vine in the back corner of the garden has wrapped itself so tightly around the wire fence that you can’t tell where the plant ends and the metal begins. […]
Gospel Echoes: The Holy Terror of Light
We have turned St. Catherine of Siena into a porcelain doll, and in doing so, we’ve completely sanitized the Gospel. If you look at the standard hagiographies, Catherine is painted […]