Transfiguration A, Exodus 24:12-18

I had a car like Exodus once. Whenever you left the house you could never be sure you might not spend forty years wandering around stuck in the wilderness. It was a used '59 English Ford my dad got for fifty bucks. It had transmission problems. Just like those tricky approaches to YHWH on Sinai, you had to double clutch it sometimes to grind down from one gear to the next up that slippery slope. It could get ugly.

Christmas Eve Year A

Titus 3:4-7 (NRSV)

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

If you google “recursive”, one definition you get is:

Advent 3, Year A, Psalm 146

Father Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest who was imprisoned by the Nazi's in World War II, wrote from his prison cell shortly before he was hanged: