What Gives the Bottle Its Name: Vocational Ministry

What really defines a bottle: the container or what it holds inside? An everyday image can help us understand something essential about Christian life: in the Church and in pastoral ministry too, what matters most is not the name we give things, but whom we carry within us. What Gives the Bottle Its Name We […]

Lectio Divina 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: Let them take up their cross and follow me

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time · Matthew 16:21–27 Take up your cross and follow me The cross: a path towards fullness of life This Lectio Divina for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, is rooted in Matthew 16:21–27: “Take up your cross and follow me.” Through five movements —Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio, Contemplatio and […]