Reflections for January 2026

Baptisms are all about beginning. In the Catholic tradition baptism became associated with babies – so a beginning of life in many senses. That was not always so. The earliest accounts of church life are completely focused on adults, and baptism had nothing to do with the start of human life, as in a baby, […]

Today, the Feast of the Epiphany, marks the end of our Christmas season, the end of the beginning, as it were. The key to this ending is the message that the birth of Christ, the decisive entry of God into our world, into our human state, was not just a deeply human story of a