That double action of the light, landing and then sinking in, provides an underlying clue to the whole direction of Jesus’ ministry.
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The Defining Backdrop
by Tom McKenna, CM | April 12, 2017 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
The Defining Backdrop (Gen. 17:5-9; Jn. 17) In the middle of Genesis, we come across the classic phrasing of a central theme running all through both Testaments of the bible, the Covenant. After telling Abraham He will make him the father of nations, Yahweh says, “I...
Vincentian Discernment: Following The Leader
by Tom McKenna, CM | March 29, 2017 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Vincentian Discernment: Following The Leader (Genesis 11:1-9) One of the keys to the story of the tower of Babel is the contrast in it between two lines of thought, one in the incident itself and the other coming a few chapters later in Genesis. In the first the...
Gospel Stretching: Wideness
by Tom McKenna, CM | March 15, 2017 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Gospel Stretching (Mark 6:1-6) There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the Sea. So begins the famous hymn written by Frederick Faber two centuries ago. Freeing and refreshing and life-giving and promising as it sounds, wideness can...
Talk, Speech, Deed
by Tom McKenna, CM | March 1, 2017 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
Talk, Speech, Deed (1 Cor 2: 1-5) In one of the many commentaries on the quality of the rhetoric in the recent campaign, I came across a distinction I had never thought of – the difference between talk and speech. Talk, whatever comes to you on the spot, or from off...
“Honor” The Hidden Life
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jan 2, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Those years between Jesus’ adolescence and public ministry there’s only silence, only the anonymity of what writers have termed The Hidden Life.
Christmas Meditation on Humility
by .famvin | Dec 23, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Consider what a wonderful blessing it is that God became a human being just like you.
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