Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Tim O’Malley says “we have forgotten Eucharistic reverence in our churches, making the Eucharist something easy, rather than hard.” This feast of Corpus
Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for Trinity Sunday. Timothy P. O’Malley writes that the feast of the Holy Trinity is healing for a stiff-necked people. We must give up the project of going it alone, a bootstraps Catholicism
Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for Pentecost. Tim O’Malley writes that until we understand the nothingness of death, we also cannot grasp the gift of salvation. We can do nothing about death. The end of nothingness is not
In the Opening the Word for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Timothy P. O’Malley writes about sight and its close connection to touch. If seeing was related to touch, then not seeing was to be cut off from all contact. This is
Be ready for Mass this weekend by reading the Opening the Word for the Third Sunday of Advent. Tim O’Malley writes that the arrival of the kingdom of God will not be bloodless. It will result in the death of John the
Jesus provokes. In the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, our Lord teaches, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day” (Jn 6:54). For us Catholics, this claim may have lost