A leader needs apostles. Apostles need a leader they believe in. In Genesis chapter 12, God says to Abraham [paraphrased],” Leave home and go to where I will show you and do as I instruct.” Abraham rises to the command,…
Tradition and faith count 12 days between the birth of Jesus and the arrival of the Magi, the three kings from the east who bring gifts and adoration to a child whom they call the King of the Jews (Matthew…
So that is it for 2020, not that the fault lies in the stars, which have a decided impact on the measurement and organization of time, but in ourselves. We ought to know that by now. What is more significant,…
On the sixth day of Christmas our true love gives us six geese a-laying. Clever academics will connect this to ancient myths of feathered animals that were sources of the world’s bottomless bounty. They need not. Six geese a-laying in…
If the partridge is the love everlasting of God — in the Catholic doctrine, of Jesus Christ — then on days two and three of Christmas we find acknowledgment of the less perfect, if more accessible, love of fallen humans….
Saturday The day after Christmas and it’s a perfect day here in Rancho Mirage. No one – and I mean no one could ask for a more beautiful day than today. Blue skies. My swimming pool in blue and green….
The theological banter with Giovanni was not on Christmas Eve but on the day before. Christmas Eve this year in Washington, D.C., was warm and too damp for tennis, but the day before was cold and sunny; his suggestion was…
I grin like the Cheshire Cat behind my mask. I sign the papers without reading them. I’m used to checking in at hotels, but doing so in a hospital makes me feel a little queasy. While at a hotel the…
Few Christmas films merit a yearly watch. The ones that do are mostly children’s cartoons: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol — network broadcasts played and replayed until they became unquestioned tradition. There…
