Petersboat

We share with the rest of humanity that Adam in us is always insisting on saving himself. But, as Christians, we're also privileged to belong to a long line of heroic men and women who've allowed Christ into our hearts. We are, with them, in every generation, the first responders to God's grace - not to the eradication of our humanity, but its redemption.

A brief reflection on the meaning of the Sabbath and how taking refuge in it is like entering into new life with God, even now.

This episode offers a way of looking through the lens of Mother Teresa (whose Feast Day is today) at the people in our lives who need us or who ask something from us. Could it be Christ in them...longing for us?

If the Word of God is spoken most powerfully from mother to child over the Baptismal Font, or through the priest over the bread and wine, then the Church speaks the tiny whispering sound that Elijah heard in the desert - the still, small voice of God.

When the Muppets come to understand that they are puppets, something amazing is happening, as mysterious as when a man or woman begins to perceive the meaning of our common humanity.