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Paving the way

December 1, 2021

Residents of Northern Virginia are well acquainted with roadwork. Be it on I-66 or the Beltway, we all know that road improvements (widening, repaving, straightening) often make it easier to get around, but just as often can seem like a perpetual project requiring major life changes. Thus, we have a keen insight into John the Baptist’s message in our Gospel today. In Luke 3:1-6, we find John filled with the word of God, crying out in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord”and “make straight a highway in the desert for our God.”

 

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At the end of time

November 12, 2021

Gospel Commentary Nov. 14, Mk 13:24-32

The month of November sees the liturgical year of the church draw to a close by directing our thoughts to the last things. The beginning of the month offers us the feasts of All Saints and All Souls, so that we consider the rewards and company of heaven, as well as the love of God for all of the dead. The end of the month focuses on the end of time and the culmination of all earthly life, in the vision of Christ the King, Lord of the Universe.

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Rooting out sin

September 23, 2021

Jesus uses very strong language in today’s Gospel passage to challenge us to root sin out of our lives: Cut off our hands and feet and pluck out our eyes if they cause us to sin. 

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Revolution vs. love

September 14, 2021

One of the most popular conceptions of the so-called historical Christ current in the secular world is the portrait of Christ the Revolutionary. The modern West, bound up in its own sensitivities and obsessions, seeks a Jesus beyond the Christ of the church’s faith and so often makes of him either a harmless wandering rabbi who merely teaches universal moral law, or a reforming firebrand and thorn in the side of all establishment, political, and religious alike.

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