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The Annunciation and the “Impossible”

Jonathan Mitchican
March 25, 2020
Commentary, Contributors, Roman Catholic Church
By Jonathan Mitchican The angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her a series of impossible-seeming things. The first and most obvious is the thing we’re celebrating today. He announced to Mary that she would c... Read More...

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).

Trauma and the Eucharist

Neil Dhingra
March 18, 2019
Books, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church
All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.

A Choice that Changed the World

Jean Meade
December 22, 2018
Bible, Commentary, Exegesis, The Episcopal Church
Gabriel announced that Mary was chosen, not that she was already pregnant.

The Catholic Church Needs Mothers

Guest Contributor
August 23, 2018
Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
The Catholic Church is broken in a way that only Jesus can heal. But I have a suggestion for what might help.

An unheard-of greeting: The Annunciation

Zachary Guiliano
March 25, 2017
Bible, Church of England, Liturgy
The blessed Virgin received the rays of “the sun” when she conceived the Lord. That is, the divinity of our Redeemer cloaked itself with the covering of human nature as with a shade, and by this means a virgin’s womb was able to bear him.

For the Visitation: E.L. Mascall on the Incarnation and the Virgin

Zachary Guiliano
May 31, 2016
Catechesis, Church of England, Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement
Mascall provides a profound reflection on the theology of the Incarnation, bursting with insights from St. Leo and St. Augustine.

“My soul eats twice”: the strange alignment of Annunciation and Passion in 2016

Michael Cover
March 25, 2016
Commentary, Liturgy
The Holy Spirit "speaks" through the calendar, and this becomes a proclamation of the purest sort: the kind that the "heavens" rather than the Reformed pastors "declare."

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