“Which of these three, do you think, proved neighbour to the man who fell among the robbers?” The parable of the Good Samaritan speaks directly to the conscience of the human race. Who, on hearing this parable, would not blame the priest and the Levite who, when they saw the...
Everything in this world can be turned towards good, everything without exception, even what is unrighteous. Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, our Lord tells us in the Gospel, so that when it fails they may lead you into eternal habitations. ‘Mammon’, of course, is first of all...
Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father. Let us consider this. Who are those who say ‘Lord, Lord’, who speak with this apparently religious urgency, but who somehow miss the point? What can we hear in...
He is not here ...
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...
