Believing in God is a risky affair. Pick the wrong God, and it's over. Israel alone enjoys the certainty of revelation: the true God made himself known to them. We know that many of our Old Testament heroes and heroines spoke with God. Moses, for example, saw the Burning Bush and was given the tablets of God’s perfect law. This revelation by God gives us far superior knowledge of him than we can arrive at by ourselves. When it comes to believing in God, we take up what
You may have seen a movie in which a woman is in childbirth. Not much is shown, but we hear things: the mother groaning and gasping in labour, midwives offering encouragement, sounds of bystanders anxious, worried, apprehensive. And then there is one sound that resolves all the tension and brings it to a happy ending: the cry of the newborn baby. If the baby is crying, then the baby is breathing, and has thus made the absolutely essential first step to adjusting to life ou
Today’s feast marks a watershed moment in the history of salvation. It marks an end and a beginning. It is like a hinge on which turns God’s plan of salvation for humanity. We see this in the readings. In the Gospel, we heard the last words of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel, just before his Ascension. And in the First Reading, we heard the first words of the Acts of the Apostles, and the last words of Jesus as he ascended. So, the Ascension is like a hinge which connects the minis
May 15
PREACHING
From the beginning, St Dominic’s friars have set about preaching with the mind of the Church. Our homilies are offered here for the good of their readers and the support of homilists everywhere.
