Wow. Another home run as far as I’m concerned. Have a look at Mike Liccione’s discussion of “God the Killer” over at Pontifications.

The Gospel reading for Mass yesterday is one of those texts that simultaneously comforts and discomfits. On the one hand, it tells a story about the precise sort of self-abandonment that is required of the Christian disciple: Our Lady’s fiat is the model for all Christian prayer and every proper response to God’s presence in [...]