It is startling how immediately James and John, Peter and Andrew seem to have responded to the Lord’s call. ‘Come, follow me’ he said, and they did. Maybe they had already spent time with Jesus, maybe he had already helped them to prepare and hear his call. Maybe not… What helps you hear his call? […]
This Sunday is the first of the Church’s celebrations of the annual Sunday of the word of God, instituted by Pope Francis. A good day to ponder on words from another reformer! No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God’s Word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no […]
The prophet Isaiah proclaims the new glory that God will confer on his people, even at the cost of humiliating the nations; but he also knows the humiliation of Israel and how that finds its justification in Israel’s turning from her Lord. We ourselves often find in that same quandary, somewhere betwixt and between the […]
