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It is Advent again. In his sermon this morning, Oscar Uzin said: “Be alert, be alert, so that you will be able to recognize your Lord in your husband, your wife, your parents, your children, your friends, your teachers, but also in all that you read in the daily papers. The Lord... Read More →

This then is what it means to seek God perfectly: to withdraw from illusion and pleasure, from worldly anxieties and desires, from the works that God does not want, from a glory that is only human display; to keep my mind free from confusion in order that my liberty may be always... Read More →

As kids in Sunday School we learned that the shortest verse in the Bible comes from this narrative in John’s Gospel: “Jesus wept.” That was it — a factoid to be learned for Bible quizzes. Yet this remarkable story — the bringing back to life of Jesus’ close friend Lazarus after a... Read More →

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespecting... Read More →

Seasons of joy, seasons of sorrow, times when the Lord is so real it seems any activity you undertake is a spiritual experience. Season of dryness, when things are so bleak that even a plateful of Sinai sand would be considered a feast! And are not these seasons from the hand of... Read More →