Fr. Christian Mathis | September 4, 2011
The story of St. Maximilian Kolbe illustrates how we are called, even in the most difficult of circumstances, to allow Christ’s light to shine forth in the world. The narrator of this video describes the effect his sacrifice had one his fellow prisoners at Auschwitz. It was an enormous shock to the whole camp. We [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 29, 2011
Much of the process in writing an icon in the egg tempura style involves adding more and more layers of light. At various times throughout this process the icon reaches a point where it looks pretty good: the colors are nice, light seems to be shining from the image on the board, and it is [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | May 6, 2011
Often when I have spent a week writing an icon I have written posts about the process in order to share the spiritual dimension of iconography. This week I chose to allow my keyboard to be silent so as to enter more fully into the process. There is still one day remaining in the writing [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | January 2, 2011
Even though the feast of Epiphany traditionally falls on January 6, its celebration has recently in many parts of the Catholic Church been transferred to the Sunday nearest to that date, which is why in our diocese we are celebrating it today. I know what you’re thinking, “Isn’t January 9 closer than January 2?” and [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | December 27, 2010
This is what we proclaim to you: what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked upon and our hands have touched, we speak of the word of life. This life became visible; we have seen and bear witness to it, and we proclaim [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | October 19, 2010
I would like to continue in the series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council by turning to the second of its four central documents, the Constitution on the Church, entitled Lumen Gentium. Lumen Gentium begins by stating, Christ is the light of humanity; and it is, accordingly, the heart-felt desire of this sacred Council, [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | June 24, 2010
Today we celebrate the Birth of John the Baptist. This time of year the days begin to shorten until our celebration of the Birth of Christ. I have always found it intriguing that the Church chose to place the celebration of Christ’s birth and his cousin John in such a way that this statement of [...]
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