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Sooner or later, the heart of everybody’s spiritual problem is “What we do with our pain? Why is there evil? Why is there suffering?” Job begs God for an answer to this mystery, and he can’t get one. He only begins to trust when he no longer feels ignored, when he knows that God... Read More →

Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses: The man of God Rewritten by Jon Bannon Version One YOU ARE GOD, WE ARE DUST. WE QUICKLY PASS AND ARE GONE. IF ONLY WE KNEW. TEACH US. HAVE COMPASSION ON US. SATISFY US. MAKE US GLAD. SHOW US. ESTABLISH THE WORK OF [Y]OUR HANDS FOR US. YOU ARE OUR... Read More →

The final Sunday before Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week orders our spirituality toward the coming death and resurrection and calls us into a more intense spiritual preparation for the paschal mystery (Luke 20:9-19; John 11:1-17; 12:20-33). In the ancient church, this... Read More →

The seeds of Easter are already found in Christmas. If God can become flesh, incarnating in the material world, then resurrection is a natural conclusion. Nothing divine can die. Easter isn’t celebrating a one-time miracle as if it only happened in the body of Jesus and we’re all... Read More →

God, all of created life is groaning, waiting for the future God has prepared for us. We hope for the day on which all you have made will be rescued from death and decay. We wait for the redemption of our bodies and the restoration of our world. God in this season of hope and... Read More →