The passion of patience It’s a peculiar phrase: “the passion of patience.” Almost oxymoronic- in its combining the vigor of the heft-filled word passion with the passive neutrality of patience. The phrase was coined by Venerable Madeleine Debrel.. A former atheist turned Catholic apologist who lived and died during the last century. Her poem The Passion of Patience begins with […]
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Go tell them how much I love them. Being quarantined, locked in, sheltering in place can have consequences. Fears that we can risk only brief trips outside the safety of our homes, and then do so only when gloved and masked might shake us up enough to erode certainties. Dread of infection and death make
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Our three person God. Today is the Solemnity for the Holy Trinity in the Christian Liturgy. And I realize that this concept of our Three Person God foils me. Close to nineteen years ago, the man who would become my husband explained his experience of the journey to God. It begins, he said, with Our
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Cheap grace: sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But even a cursory reading of Diedrich Bonhoeffer reveals it’s itchy truth. Germany: the land of Luther, Wagner, Nietzche, Hitler, Rahner, and Ratzinger. The list combines the very noblest and the most bestial of the minds and hearts of man. And there was also a man called
Thinking about Martha I have been thinking about Martha for years…and the comparison with her sister Mary. My sympathies invariably lie with Martha because I have a very clear image of what she is dealing with. Tradition tells us that Jesus did not travel alone,. Quite the contrary; from what we guess, there were generally
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