vincentian spirituality

How many times have you heard people use the phrase, “I finally woke up?”

Some of the traits which come out in the Samaritan woman as she interacts with Jesus at the noonday well could paint her as a hard-hearted and difficult lady.

There’s a phrase from  the sports world, “setting a high bar.” It means raising the height of the jump just beyond the mark the athlete think he can clear.

The word “bias” doesn’t have an especially pleasing connotation. It usually means an unfair leaning toward one group and a blindness toward its opposite.

Every once in a while when reading the Scriptures, something lights up, jumps out into the present time and place.

Something with which most every believer can struggle is the felt nearness of God: how close up do I sense the Divine presence?

One way to hear the Advent Gospel message is to put ourselves in the shoes of all those people walking out to that desert to listen to John the Baptist.

As with all literature, there are many words in the Scriptures that need interpretation, that second look to get at their more underlying meaning.

Luke’s 19th chapter begins with a story of “two people looking.”