Category Archives: Redemption

Robert Southwell (1561-1595) was a Jesuit priest from England who was martyred in 1595.  During Advent I like to ponder his poem “The Burning Babe.”  It is a strange, extended metaphor in which the baby Jesus is likened to a smelting furnace.Here’s how it starts…”As I in hoary Winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,ContinueContinue reading “The Christ child is on fire!”