Roc Homily (e) – 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time (A) 2017
Here’s my first attempt at dealing with the meaning of “atonement.” The Oxford-English Dictionary defines “atone” as “making reparation for a wrong or injury.” However, the medieval Latin word, adunamentum, means “unity” from an obsolete verb meaning “to unite.” So, what sounded as a hip dealing with this concept in the 1970’s as “at-one-ment” is actually true […]