(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mass-Blog-for-the-2nd-Sunday-in-Advent-2021.mp3) If Advent is the arrival of an important person or event, people of faith—or those searching for faith—might prepare by thinking of themselves as living in one big Advent calendar. Its days are a series of doors we open as we get closer to Christmas. […]

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mass-Blog-for-the-1st-Sunday-in-Advent-2021.mp3) It’s Advent, and children are already anticipating what they’ll get in those beautifully-wrapped Christmas boxes. But the season of advent invites all of us to adopt outside-the-box thinking when it comes to our relationship with the Divine. Great theologians have described God as “an infinite […]

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mass-Blog-for-the-Solemnity-of-Jesus-Christ-King-of-the-Universe-2021.mp3) Of all three readings for the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, one sentence commands attention. It stands out from all the sentiments regarding kingship and truth: “All the peoples of the earth will lament him.” This comes from Sunday’s second […]

(For the audio version of this blog, please visit: http://brothersinchristcmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mass-Blog-for-the-33rd-Sunday-in-Ordinary-time-2021.mp3) The closer technology gets to answering humanity’s hope for immortality, the further we get from the faith that offers it to us. Paradoxically, in the process, technology’s given us many more ways to destroy ourselves. With all the unintended consequences human intelligence has unleashed, many […]