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The epiphanies of life

Herbert O’Driscoll — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:33:06 +0000

Piano tuners have to hit single notes again and again. However, now and again they play a chord and you realize how infinitely richer a musical chord is than a single note. Epiphany is like that. In fact, many of the great words of Christian faith — Revelation, Epiphany, Ascension, Resurrection — are much more […]

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Seeing Christmas through Herod’s eyes

John J. Thatamanil — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:23:20 +0000

Menacing danger sets the tone in Matthew’s telling of the Christmas story. Why? Might the danger inherent in the Messiah’s birth be worth remembering lest we forget it amidst the light-filled cuddle fest of Christmas? Immediately after Matthew presents Jesus’ genealogy and the story of Jesus’ miraculous conception, Herod looms large. In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem […]

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The night the stars sang

Herbert O’Driscoll — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:49:10 +0000

Hollywood loves the word “apocalypse.” To them it means “dollars.” It means a big-screen disaster movie, complete with toppling high-rises, mile-high tsunamis engulfing cities and terrified humans running in all directions. Nobody has told these people that the term “apocalypse” has a meaning other than “disaster.” It means an event that comes to reveal something of worldwide significance. Here are four apocalyptic moments […]

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The borrowed tomb

Bob Quicke — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:09:14 +0000

I have a strange mental aberration (whether a gift from God or not I will leave to you to decide) in that my mind, upon hearing a phrase or story, will often wander off, trying to speculatively fill in the missing pieces of the tale. It is this quirk that has inspired some of my […]

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Calvary

Herbert O’Driscoll — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:41:52 +0000

Herb O’Driscoll’s newest book of memoirs, I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People, was released Feb. 17 by Morehouse Publishing. Jerusalem, April 1993 We had come to Jerusalem in January, knowing that we would be there for almost four months, an academic term in the life of St. […]

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A brief encounter

Herbert O’Driscoll — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:49:51 +0000

By late afternoon he came down out of the hills to a wooded valley. He noticed that the forest floor was tinder dry. Even this far north the drought had the region in its grip. After a while he came to a cluster of makeshift huts. He saw a woman gathering twigs. He stopped because […]

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