Jesus Christ is the True Light who gives light to everyone in the world. We did not know how deep was the darkness until the Light came and ...

The Incarnation cannot be undone. If it could, it would be the undoing of our salvation, for the Cross and Resurrection would be of no benef...

Our Lord Jesus Christ became human, that humankind may become divine. Though Christ was rich, for our sake, he became poor, just as we are,...

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  Blessed are ...

God is Love, as St. John tells us (1 John 4:8). Love is not merely something God has or does under certain conditions. No, Love is what God ...

Faith in Christ is not merely mental acquiescence to some proposition about him. More than that, it is personal engagement with Christ, entr...

We are not here to live our best life but to die our best death, to deny ourselves in self-giving, other-centered, cross-shaped love. So sh...

In Ephesians 1, St. Paul lays out the “Big Picture,” God’s eternal purpose in Christ, from beginning to end. It begins with God choosing us ...

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, God said, “Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness.” ...

Do not look for your identity in a political party or candidate. You will not find it there, but only a false self. Your true identity is in...

Jesus Christ, Crucified and Risen is the Word Who Is With God from Eternity — and indeed is God. He is the Creator of All, the Redeemer of A...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things we...

Our Lord Jesus Christ is the humility of God, and so, the glory of God revealed. For humility is not merely something God does; it is not so...

Yes, there is a Final Judgment — and thank God for it! It means that God finally puts everything right, even as God created it to be from th...

A good map can be a very helpful guide, but a poor map can be a disaster. Theology is like that. A good theology can be quite enlightening. ...

Friends, our citizenship is in heaven, which means we carry heaven with us. Right here, right now. Writing to people of Philippi, a colony o...

Grace is God giving Himself to us, thoroughly and completely, by uniting with us through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Christ is the Image of t...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurr...

When Peter confessed the revelation he received from the Father, that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, our Lord ...

  Love in Its Chastening Work The Consuming Fire of God and the Love of God are not two opposing forces which must be somehow balanced out, ...