Category: 4_THE PLAZA
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The People’s Ministry at Christmas: Bearing Witness to Suffering
Happy, bright faces pressed together, donned with fashionable hats. A young couple giving new vehicles to one another. Kids sprinting for the tree in cozy pajamas, together with their smiling parents, holding mugs of hot joe. Grandparents beaming with joy, grateful for yet another happy holiday gathering. Retailers use these images to manipulate consumption for…
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Ars Praedicandi: 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
The stranger is an essential part of God’s calculus
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Ars Praedicandi: Feast of the Transfiguration, Ed Foley
In the transfiguration, the Only-Begotten hung in the thin space between heaven and earth.
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for August 9: Memorial of Dr. Edith Stein/St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Early feminist ● German Jewish philosopher ● Catholic intellectual ● Discalced Carmelite ● victim of the Shoah ● Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ● “Virgin and Martyr” — Ways of remembering Edith Stein are multiple, and they include sensitive terrain.
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The Garden of the Soul
Good news: Jesus is here for the whole garden.
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Worship and Wildfires
Does our worship turn wine country into wildfire country?
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Ars Praedicandi: Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin At first glance today’s are not the most challenging lectionary readings filled as they are with a multitude of gracious and affirming images: a meek savior peace for the nations God’s mercy the Spirit dwelling within a messiah who lightens our burdens. At the same time there are ominous allusions…
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Radical Henotheism
How are we to be a radically henotheistic church in an increasingly and radically polytheistic world?
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King Charles III: Protestant or Byzantine Emperor-Priest?
Saturday, May 6, 2023 was a big day for England, for the Church of England, for at least some Anglicans throughout the world, for royalists, and for those who believe in the Divine Right of Kings. The tension that stayed with me as I watched the liturgy with some friends early that morning was between…