What is truth?
And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience. Herman Melville, Moby Dick The altar is a mysterious place. It renders […]
Light from the darkness
Black is the color of Passion. It is the part of the visible spectrum where all light is completely absorbed. It is the visible end of the cosmic path of […]
Living Black
The color of Passion time is black. We see the black frontal on the altar, the black robes and collars of the servers, the black stole and belt of the […]
Wisdom into Being
If you had to speak to a large group of people about the existence and meaning of Christ, how would you prepare for it? Where would you go? What would […]
A Pale Blue Dot
“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived […]
The Way to Bethlehem
How many ways lead to Bethlehem? There is the one taken by Joseph and pregnant Mary, from Nazareth – the path known from the Gospel of Luke. There is the […]
Love, the Rose, is on the Way
At Advent the earth is bare; yet the furrows of earth can rejoice, so says the carol, “People look East,” because a seed, a rose seed, has already been planted […]