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Here is my not-so-hot take on Eucharistic coherence: When we lay out the Welcome mat at Church, it shouldn’t have an asterisk. I found this conversation on Gloria Purvis’ podcast very helpful in outlining the rationale behind Eucharistic coherence, which, for those who aren’t nerdy Catholics, is the concept from which the current hullabaloo around…
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One of those Bible tricks I learned in college is that, sometimes, Gospel writers bracket an important section between parallel stories. So Luke starts his 9th chapter with the story of Jesus sending out the twelve disciples, and then he starts the 10th chapter by sending out 72 other disciples. That should make us think…
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Hey, remember that thing I used to do where I would read through a book of the Bible and pull out points that I hadn’t noticed before? I’m back, baby. As near as I can tell, I left off at Luke 8, so here’s something interesting in Luke 9 that turns out to be eerily…
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Two super-quick notes on the Bible passages Catholics will hear this Sunday at Mass: John 10:13 explains a lot (though not all) about what’s wrong with capitalist economies, including why, to reference a problem more floridly described by Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon II, your drive-thru order often isn’t correctly fulfilled. Look it up. Most…
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I drafted this earlier in the week but didn’t bring it in for a landing. So consider this a rough draft: The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Acts 3:15 The second Sunday of Easter is Divine Mercy Sunday, but I don’t…
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I think a lot of us Christians come out of Easter on a bit of a triumphant high. Some of us made it through Lent and the Triduum, but even those who don’t show up for that part of the story find it easy to jump on the bandwagon of Easter morning. O Death, where…
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Some of my favorite Lenten phrases are about time. We start the season with Paul saying “Now is an acceptable time.” This Sunday, the fifth of Lent, starts with Jeremiah’s portentous phrase, “The days are coming, says the Lord.” Stuff’s ‘bout to get real, in other words. But “The days are coming, says the Lord”…
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The Apple+ show has great examples of key leadership principles.
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Do you trust me? In the animated Disney classic Aladdin, that phrase, “Do you trust me?” is the theme to the whole story. It identified Aladdin – he asks it of Princess Jasmine on their first date, and he asks it again of her when he is a (poorly disguised) Prince Ali. (How Jasmine doesn’t…
