Recently we read a book in the refectory called How the West really lost God. The author was Mary Eberstadt, an American academic, essayist, novelist, and Social Scientist. She has gained some notoriety in recent times as an orthodox Catholic…
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Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year “A”
At Christmas we celebrated how God in Christ became flesh, in order to identify with us in our humanity. He emptied himself, says St. Paul, being made in the likeness of men (cf. Phil 2:7). Today we see how he went further. He humbled himself so far as to identify with us even in our sinfulness, though…