In the March 2nd issue of America Magazine, Jim McDermott wrote a piece on podcasts, marveling at the success of podcasts like Serial and StartUp. Looking at these phenomena, he wrote “they reveal the great […]
Easter Sunday: Resurrected Reality
At Easter, and in every Eucharist, we celebrate the fullness of the paschal mystery: Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection. The resurrection does not erase the suffering and death of Christ, nor does it remove our […]
Holy Saturday: The Sparrow Still Falls
By John DeCostanza, Jr. “There’s an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the […]
“Die Before You Die”: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
Part of the wisdom of the passion liturgies is the extent to which the congregation participates in the reading: called to our feet, we read aloud, in unison, the words spoken against Jesus and […]
The Eucharist is an Act of Community
One of the central tenets of the Christian tradition is the community of believers. We are not single individuals, struggling along in a vast sea of humanity. We are a community–a collection of people, sharing […]
Why did the crowd turn on Jesus?
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the Highest!” We know how the rest of the story goes. Jesus—acclaimed as the one who is to save his people—enters Jerusalem […]
How the March Might Continue
By John DeCostanza, Jr. On this date 50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Alabama State House in Montgomery and addressed a crowd of 25,000 who had assembled […]
“He Became Perturbed and Deeply Troubled” – The Com-passion of Christ in the Face of Evil
Two weeks from the celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord, and one week from Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the readings from the fourth gospel, John 11, invite us to meditate on God’s […]
Joseph, Francis, and a Church Open To Alternative Masculinities: The Solemnity of the Feast of Saint Joseph
“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.” (Matthew 1:24A) Two years ago today, on the solemnity of the feast of St. […]
The Silence of St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Americans and the Sin of Racism
St. Patrick’s Day confronts us with the sin of racism and the obligation for those who honor this saint to work to end discrimination.
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