Coming to Terms with Our Cultural Blinders: The Beatitudes as a Case Study Mother Miriam, CSM December 1, 2020 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Mother Miriam, CSM Recently, we encountered once more the Beatitudes, which comprise the traditional gospel reading at Mass for All Saints’ Day. On that day, we celebrate the miracle of untold numbers of ... Read More...
A Spiritual Tool for Social Distancing Mother Miriam, CSM May 25, 2020 Commentary, The Episcopal Church By Mother Miriam, CSM In a large group of people, it is easy to get lost, think your own thoughts, find like-minded thinkers or feelers, and generally plow your own furrow or hitch your wagon to someone else... Read More...
The Hidden Lives of the Church’s Religious (Part Two) Mother Miriam, CSM March 9, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church The external witness of vowed religious — habits, cloister, the Opus Dei (the daily round of psalms, hymns, and collects recited in chapel) — are the first things Christians notice about the monastics among them. But, of course, that is not the whole story of the charism and fruit of the religious life
The Hidden Lives of the Church’s Religious (Part One) Mother Miriam, CSM March 2, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Ecclesiology, Ministry, The Episcopal Church Why have so many religious communities determined that the distinctive separation of religious men and women from the laity is a problem to be erased?
A Postmodern Reflection on Mary the Second Eve Mother Miriam, CSM September 9, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church Among the various characterizations of Mary, I find myself repeatedly drawn to Mary as the Second Eve in parallel to St. Paul’s reference to Christ as the Second Adam (Rom 5:12, 15; I Cor 15:45, 47).
Seeing Ancient Words Anew: Looking through the Dictionary Darkly Mother Miriam, CSM June 7, 2019 Catechesis, Commentary, The Episcopal Church The time between Easter and Trinity Sunday is ideal for instruction in trinitarian doctrine.
Imagination, Transposition, Transfiguration Mother Miriam, CSM March 1, 2019 Bible, Commentary, The Episcopal Church The use of the Transfiguration Gospel for the Last Sunday of Epiphany is a stroke of genius.
Imagination, the Gospel, and Impossible Situations Mother Miriam, CSM October 29, 2018 Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church In our disputes, we might need to recall that holiness dwells precisely in ambiguity.
