It would take Steven Spielberg to create an adequate depiction of the scene in today's first reading. Think about it, the whole community stood listening "attentively" for about six hours — and that ...

This is a homily exploring what the church imagines on Pentecost Sunday. The names for the Spirit from "Veni Sancte Spiritus" should be read with good pauses between. Pentecost is the last of the ...

“Lord, How Come Me Here” is so simple in its words, repeated over and over; a vestige of African culture and idioms. It’s a song of deep lament, mourning, and grief. You can picture members of the ...