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200 words: Immersed into change From a philosopher, theologian and rhetorician, known as the Trinitarian Theologian: Christ is bathed in light. Let us also be bathed in light. Christ is baptised. Let us also go down with him and rise with him (St. Gregory Nazianzen (329-390)). Furthermore, Jesus commissions us: Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And teach them to observe all that I have command

200 words: Repetition as Revelation The astrologers come from the East to Jerusalem, led by the ‘star.’ They depart from King Herod: There in front of them was the star they had seen rising. It went forward and halted over the place where the child was (Matthew 2). What is the star? A cosmic event? The conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn on February 20, 6 BC? The 2007 proposal of Grant Matthews, Astrophysicist at Notre Dame University, is possible. A symbol perhaps? That

200 words: Are We Wrong? John the Baptist was expecting a Messiah of judgement, not exactly a crash and burn approach, but: Someone who would cut down the rotten tree and burn the useless chaff (Henry Wansborough, OSB, Universalis). He got it wrong. So might we. We may sincerely think or believe something to be the case, but in fact it is not so. Conscience is ‘me looking at me.’ A gift of God: For we have in our hearts a law inscribed by God…. Our conscience is our most secr

200 words: Radiance that Refutes Lies Jesus asked the disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ (Matthew 16). We are asked the same question by Jesus. What is our answer? Pope Leo XIV answers without hesitation, without duplicity. He relies on our rich spiritual tradition. The Nicene Creed is 1,700 years old this year. It answered a controversy created by a priest called Arius, who did not believe that Jesus was truly God. Some 318 bishops gathered at Nicea (Iznik) in 325: Th

200 words: Ruins Revealing the Living Christ Archaeologists tell us that an ancient basilica, which hosted the Council of Nicea (325), was discovered in 2014 (Wall Street Journal). Nicea is now called Iznik (Turkey). Lake Iznik receded due to drought. The remains of the Church became visible. Pope Leo XIV visited the basilica November 2025. St. Neophytos was martyred by Roman soldiers on the shore of the lake in A.D. 303: A decade later, the Edict of Milan decriminalised Chr