There are three key moments of divine and human hospitality in  our salvation history The Abraham pattern of divine and human hospitality recurs through salvation history. From the time of the promise made to Abraham, to its fulfilment in Christ, and at the Last Judgment, the Host of the world is welcomed and shown hospitality in [...]

The Good News is that God loves us to the extent of giving form and flesh to this love in Jesus of Nazareth, born of Mary. It is not only to be contemplated and received. The love of God made visible in Jesus is to become visible in the lives of Christians.
Jesus’ emphasis falls heavily [...]

The Christian community of faith turns to Jesus for the source and shape of our specifically Christian hope. Be reflecting on his attitude of hopeful trust in the Father and examining where that led him, we will gain some insight into our hope. If we take seriously that Jesus is the way to the Father, [...]

 
“Where there is no vision, the people will perish.” So we read in the Book of Proverbs 29:18, and so our life in the community of Christian faith confirms. The vision that is called for is the vision of our Catholic faith, the depth-vision that enables us to face the vicissitudes of life, a vision [...]

God’s people, in Luke’s Gospel, are called to show  the generosity and mercy of their God. Community relationships should not feature reciprocal exchange, with persons asking what they will obtain  in return for their generosity, but in benevolent  and gratuitous care for the needy who cannot repay (14:12-24). A society reconfigured according to the norms of God’s [...]

We are created to know what God knows, to love what God loves, and to enjoy what God enjoys. We are created for communion, community, and communication with God in his knowing and loving and enjoying, respectively, the truth and goodness and beauty of things in the relational life of our basic self-others-world-God relation.
Inasmuch as [...]

God’s pleasure and joy is pleasure and joy in himself. As Happiness Itself, or Ipsa Felicitas in the words of Thomas Aquinas, God does not have to go out of himself for joy and happiness
The happiness of the Triune God, knowing itself in its Word and loving itself in its Spirit, is externalized by being [...]

God’s manifestation of his beauty/glory is both a grace, expressing his self-giving generosity, and a call to his joy Beauty, a relational aspect of created or uncreated excellence, is always the self-manifestation or communication of excellence.
Our enjoyment of God’s radiant beauty/glory evidences our communion, community and communication with God. Our joy/enjoyment of God’s beauty/glory is [...]

 
God as Creator is Generosity Itself whose self-gift is both the grace and call for human gratitude All creation is an expression of God’s generosity in sharing his true goodness and beauty. God is all-giving magnanimity and never exploiting or taking. God does not use or abuse/exploit his creatures. The created goodness of God’s creatures [...]

There is a continuity and an affinity between beauty and the beholder. Each affirms and enlivens the other. Beauty delights and captivates the beholder. Each “welcomes” the other. Each is in accord and harmony with the other. Each fits the other.
Beauty decenters the beholder, requiring us to give up our imaginary position as the center. [...]