The Narthex
God's Dwelling Place among Men
God seeks to dwell in the temple that is the human person
By John M. Grondelski | February 18th 2025 1:35 PMThe Opening Prayer (Collect) for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) implores, “O God, who teach us that you abide in hearts that are just and true, grant that we may be so fashioned by your grace as to become a dwelling pleasing to you.” Let us examine…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Good Work Begun in Us
Good moral action is always a divine-human partnership
By John M. Grondelski | December 15th 2024 11:22 PMThe Second Sunday of Advent’s Second Reading makes an observation all too often lost (since homilists rarely preach on the Second Reading) about the Divine-human dynamic in the good men do. In the text, St. Paul expresses confidence “that the one who began a good work in you will continue…
READ FULL BLOG POSTThe Earliest Christians Were Not Proto-Socialists
Acts 4 was not a people's republic with some holy water added
By John M. Grondelski | April 8th 2024 11:50 AMActs 4:32-35 speaks of the spiritual and temporal unity of the early Christian Church, exemplified in the common holding of property. The text no doubt makes visions of socialist sugar plums dance in some “social justice-plus” types' heads. I hate to wake them up from their dreams. The Church in…
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