Our Hearts are Restless

I’m so pleased that we, as a community, are reading Augustine together. He’s the single most influential thinker in Christian history. He’s been influential in my life as well. I have a passage from his Confessions that I’ve typed up, printed...

“For he delivers him who has no helper…”

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, Happy 10th Day of Christmas! As we are celebrating our Lord Jesus’ coming among us in great humility and love, joining the suffering of the world in order to redeem us, I want to highlight an important direction we believe the Lord is...

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...