Happy New Year!

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, Happy 6th Day of Christmas, and Happy New Year (soon). Each year during these days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, during the Twelve Days of Christmas, I take time to reflect and pray, to pull back to look at the big picture....

Tis the Season!

One of the Church’s most human works is the consecration of creation towards God. In a particular sense, this is the Church’s and humanity’s prime directive. Humanity was created under the decision to “Let them rule…” and...

The Least of These

Last Sunday, we heard from the inviting yet frightening text of Matthew 25, in which Christ teaches that what we do for “the least of these,” we do for Christ himself. What an invitation—though Christ is ascended to his Father’s right hand, we can serve him in real...

“Take up and read…”

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, Soon we will enter the Incarnation season: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. We’ll begin this liturgical year (the first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year—this year that will be 3 December) with an exploration...

Restored Relationships

On Monday, November 6th, the New York Times ran an editorial which pointed out that in the previous 511 days there had been 555 mass shootings in our nation. There’s been at least one more since. Much might be said about how these events are now normal for us (given...