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."
