Perspective
Rain and Tears: The Lessons Learned in Lent
(OSV News) – The morning sky is gray and my favorite window for prayer is rain-streaked. Rain is welcome. We’ve experienced drought, and there are wildfires nearby. And yet, there’s […]
(OSV News) – The morning sky is gray and my favorite window for prayer is rain-streaked. Rain is welcome. We’ve experienced drought, and there are wildfires nearby. And yet, there’s […]
Palm Sunday The Church this weekend leads us to the climax of Lent, the observance of Holy Week, by offering the impressive liturgy of Palm Sunday. Recalling the triumphant entry […]
(OSV News) – Scoring presidential administrations on some kind of Christian scale would seem to be an effort doomed to fail. Political agendas and actions rarely align easily with the […]
(OSV News) – Matthew, Zaccheus, Mary Magdalene, the woman at the well, the one caught in adultery, the sinful woman at the house of Simon the Pharisee, tax collectors, sinners, […]
(OSV News) – The idea of union with God is, for most people, alternately attractive and terrifying. Attractive, because no matter how far we have fallen through the sin of […]
Fifth Sunday of Lent The Book of Isaiah supplies the first reading for this weekend in Lent. The reading is from the second part of Isaiah, written at a time […]
This is the story of a tree. An Eastern Cottonwood soaring 108 feet high, stretching its arms across three yards and anchoring the entire street. It was a defining feature […]
There is an eloquent ambiguity in the way in which the opening word of the Nicene Creed has come down to us. Our best evidence suggests that in the formula […]
(OSV News) – The world rejoiced on Sunday, March 23, when Pope Francis was released from Gemelli Hospital in Rome after 38 days. God be praised, he seems to be […]
Fourth Sunday of Lent This weekend, the Church observes Laetare Sunday, the name being derived from the first word, in Latin, of the Entrance Antiphon. This word is “laetare,” or […]
(OSV News) – Every Lent for more than 45 years, I have given up watching TV and have chosen a spiritual classic to read and meditate on instead. Through the […]
We are well into the season of Lent, and I am reminded of this fact regularly as I mindlessly open a can of soda and begin to sip on it, […]