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I haven’t stopped thinking about an essay I read 15 years ago when I was in seminary. My pastoral life has been a decadelong conversation with Peter Dula’s “Fugitive Ecclesia,” a chapter from his ...

"And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light" (Matthew 17:2). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels ...

Sunday, Feb. 28, is the Second Sunday of Lent. Mass Readings: Genesis 22:1-18 (excerpted); Psalm 116:10, 15-19; Romans 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10. It’s the Second Sunday of Lent already. It’s the Sunday on ...

Six days later, Jesus leads his three closest disciples (Peter, James and John) up a high mountain where they are alone. This is one of the most dramatic events recorded in Matthew’s Gospel and ...

The Transfiguration. Most Catholics hear of it once a year; it is always the Gospel for the Second Sunday in Lent. Sometimes, when the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Aug. 6) falls on a ...