And the Word becomes flesh, viscerally...

Image: University of Dayton

Here's a present left under the Christmas tree and ready for opening: Brother Patrick has two posts up in the same week! Check here for a fine reflection on the scriptures for December 22, Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent. BP's words weave the ancient stories of two women in the scriptures (Hannah and Mary) with the experience of two women in our own time.


Perhaps you remember BP's post a while back, summarized in that one sentence: Who I am is who I am in God, and nothing more. Patrick's Christmas post includes one of his reader's reflection on that line - well worth.

I'm especially pleased to link you to BP's blog on Christmas Day because I find the thread that runs through his writing so very incarnational, never failing to connect the Word, viscerally, with our humanity.