The Trinitarian God is of course essentially and permanently mysterious. We cannot grasp or comprehend the Divine Persons in this life, nor even in the life to come: Heaven indeed promises us an unparalleled intimacy with Them, but this intimacy will not arise from the fact that we will encompass Them, but rather...
The Map Year program was, for me, a chance to experience a fuller breadth of both the human and, by extension, the Church's intellectual tradition over the past two centuries. This year, aptly called a "humanities year" was anthropological in its outlook, and was further an anthropology tailored not only to a seminarian's self-understanding , but to an understanding of the people and...
Not how the world is, but that it is - this is the mystery. Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose words these are, was perhaps the greatest, and certainly one of the most influential, of twentieth century philosophers. He wasn't what you'd call a believer. And yet I want to develop the insight his words convey....
It is in the wake of the Ascension that we always and everywhere awake and find ourselves. The liturgy expresses this, since it is the Ascended Christ who acts liturgically and to Whom, liturgically, we turn. But the Ascension itself conditions more than our liturgical life; it conditions our life as such. Humanity...
How does God show Himself? He shows Himself in Elijah, recognized as a man of God, and He shows Himself in Christ, recognized as a prophet and as a visitation of the Divine. But we see in Elijah and in Christ, despite the kinds of intimacy with God which they enjoy, that neither...
