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He Speaks with Authority!
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Over the last few Sundays our readings have put vocation — calling to God’s service — before us: Samuel; the first disciples; and Jonah who tried to flee a Word he could no more escape can he could elude his own shadow. A variant on the same theme...
Into the Desert (between Harvard and Notre Dame)
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Notre Dame, Indiana. Lent is now upon us, and Christians everywhere, many of us with hint of Wednesday’s ashes still upon us, are summoned to the desert: to pray; to fast; to do works of charity – and by all of that, to convert our lives, to turn back to...
Terrified at the Resurrection: Easter during a Pandemic
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During this time of pandemic, many of us had hoped fondly that the shutdown, distancing, and sudden rupture of ordinary life all would be over by Easter. Lent has seemed an appropriate for withdrawal, solitude, suffering, and for compassion for those who...
Oh, For a Prophet Like Jonah!
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This Sunday, the 3 rd in Ordinary Time, we hear of the beginning of the public ministry of Jesus: "Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news [ i ] of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has...
Taste and See, the Lord Is Born Today
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Advent has been filled with beautiful readings, day by day, and each Sunday, the scene has progressively prepared us for the coming of the Messiah, Jesus who has come and yet comes again in 2020. We have meditated with John the Baptist many times over...
Thomas Keating, OCSO: For a World Re-Centered in Prayer
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Cambridge, MA, October 27. Today’s tragic, outrageous murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, following so closely upon this week’s bomb threats against many leading citizens, seems destined to convince us yet again that our society is in decline, harsher...
On What (Not) to Say and Write: Jesus in the Desert 3
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Notre Dame, Indiana. When I was the Director of Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions (2010-2017), one of my favorite events was hosting discussions of new books by faculty, fresh and bright and often cutting edge writing by talented faculty...
Can Mr Firoz Khan Teach Sanskrit? I Hope So!
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Cambridge, MA. There is tumult in many Indian cities the past few days, in protest against Prime Minister Modi’s new citizenship law. It ostensibly aims to bring order to rules favoring the immigration of persecuted minorities From Bangladesh, Pakistan...
Pope Francis' Witness at Lesbos should affect us at Mass too
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I am sure that we all were edified and grateful, and perhaps a bit awed, by Pope Francis’ visit today to the refugee campus on the island of Lesbos. He went there to be be with people in a desperate plight, to assure them that they are not forgotten. That...
The Gita in Lent IV: Waking Up, Slowly
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Cambridge, MA. With the gospel for the 4 th Sunday of Lent (B), we’ve reached a very obvious and yet very subtle moment in Lent: everything is simple, and everything is at stake. In the select section of John 3 we heard at Mass on March 15, the evangelist...
Easter and the Uncertainties of Spring
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It is April, springtime, but as I write on this bright and sunny afternoon (April 2, Good Friday), it is only 40 degrees here in Cambridge MA — not quite what I hope for when I hear “springtime.” We have some new daffodils growing in our backyard, planted...