Andrew Comiskey
Fire. Burning. Notre Dame.
Fire. Burning. Notre Dame. Judgment at our house, right here, us. More than a sign of French resilience: a church, our Church. ‘Bearing’...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 24, 20193 min read
Grieving the Divides
In her face, I witnessed my sorrow and somehow could feel it. My friend conveyed simple pain over her (natural) father’s ongoing...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 10, 20193 min read
Blemished
My face is a mess. Overexposed for years in the California sun, it now looks like rugged desert terrain, baked red by heat. I am...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 3, 20192 min read
Killing The Truth
The other night, I dreamt of complicity—a good friend and colleague had been pronounced innocent of murder yet I knew otherwise. She...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 3, 20192 min read
Esperanza
‘You are no longer aliens but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 30, 20183 min read
Home Fires
OK, OK, I love my wife and kids and dogs and house. But I am most at home before the One. During these days of Christmas, my eyes are...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 2, 20182 min read
Saved by Beauty 2
‘The joy of a saint is not to draw people to himself…but to cast his crown before God.’ Father Richard Veras This fall I’ve faced the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 18, 20182 min read
Messy, Joyful Easter
I woke from a fitful sleep, jet-lagged and already critical of the things that awaited me at morning Mass. I countered with a prayer for...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 21, 20182 min read
Zeal for His House has Consumed Us (and our finances!)
We are on fire and need fuel to stoke the flames. Help us with a one-time gift. Here’s the deal. We have been burning with passion for...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 18, 20182 min read
Behold the Lamb 6: ‘Having Nothing, Possessing Everything’ (2 Cor. 10:10)
Our Lenten offering is prayer for the whole, broken Church. Not so hard. We are wholly broken, full of faith, bursting with seeds of hope...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20143 min read
November 19, 2014: A Chaste Messy Bride
‘Instead of a Church which clings to its own securities, I want one that is bruised and hurting because it has been out on the streets…’...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 3, 20142 min read
November 7, 2014: Fearful Bride
‘If we are to evangelize the “prostitutes and sinners,” it demands that we be secure enough and mature enough in our own freedom to not...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 30, 20143 min read
November 1: Becoming Icons
‘Let us consider how we may provoke one another to love and good deeds.’ (Heb. 10:24) We go through the fire of God’s refining love in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 6, 20142 min read
Hungry for Your House
‘Zeal for Your house consumes me.’ (PS 69:9; JN 2:17) During our forty days of ‘Pierced for the Bride’, we shall ‘fast’ lesser loves in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 24, 20143 min read
Friend John
How do you love someone whose self has become a defense? My friend John found it easier to present outrageous escapades than the longings...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 10, 20142 min read
At Home, to Heal
‘Christians who are afraid to build bridges and prefer to build walls are Christians who are not sure of Jesus Christ. When the Church...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 24, 20133 min read
Mercy 19: Merciful Morality
“In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband; you will no longer call me my master…I will betroth you to me forever; I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 10, 20132 min read
Power to Change 3: The Awakening Church
But when local churches become advocates of grace and truth for the gender broken, healing rises like sun breaking through clouds. And I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 2, 20132 min read
Power to Change 2: A Fortress of Friends
‘A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 26, 20132 min read
Power to Change
‘I believe, help my unbelief!’ (Mark 9: 24) A malaise broods over the earth today, scrambling moral reality to the degree that even good...
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