While the Lenten journey only lasts for weeks, our journey of life is forever. Every day is an opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness. Every day you and I must be an outward sign of our faith as well as an expression of our repentance...
While the Lenten journey only lasts for weeks, our journey of life is forever. Every day is an opportunity to ask for God’s forgiveness. Every day you and I must be an outward sign of our faith as well as an expression of our repentance...
When those in the highest levels of government are perpetuating prejudice, trafficking in tribalism and lies, and dividing our communities, as followers of Jesus, we are called to be people who love on an even greater scale than that.
When those in the highest levels of government are perpetuating prejudice, trafficking in tribalism and lies, and dividing our communities, as followers of Jesus, we are called to be people who love on an even greater scale than that.
Choosing to love is powerful. Choosing to love is resistance. Because choosing to love your enemy removes their power to define who you are and whose you are.
Choosing to love is powerful. Choosing to love is resistance. Because choosing to love your enemy removes their power to define who you are and whose you are.
Our readings today are all about this kind of hope: the hope that is not blind to struggle or injustice, but that knows struggle and injustice intimately and resists in the face of it...
Our readings today are all about this kind of hope: the hope that is not blind to struggle or injustice, but that knows struggle and injustice intimately and resists in the face of it...
On the Feast of the Presentation, Anna reminds us to carry the light of Christ, which excludes no one, out into the world, to be beacons of the good news with our lives, especially for those who are marginalized. St. Anna, preacher and prophet, widow and elder, pray for us!
On the Feast of the Presentation, Anna reminds us to carry the light of Christ, which excludes no one, out into the world, to be beacons of the good news with our lives, especially for those who are marginalized. St. Anna, preacher and prophet, widow and elder, pray for us!
Let Jesus’s message that you are a unique and necessary part of the body of Christ, serve as a reference point that you can look to again and again, whenever you feel lost, disoriented, or like you do not belong.
Let Jesus’s message that you are a unique and necessary part of the body of Christ, serve as a reference point that you can look to again and again, whenever you feel lost, disoriented, or like you do not belong.
Like John the Baptist at the Jordan River, we are called to bear witness to the boundless love of God at work in our world today, in ways that surprise and challenge us, but ultimately lead us into deeper communion with one another and with God.
Like John the Baptist at the Jordan River, we are called to bear witness to the boundless love of God at work in our world today, in ways that surprise and challenge us, but ultimately lead us into deeper communion with one another and with God.
May we follow at the beginning of this Holy Year, this Jubilee, in which we are called to be pilgrims of hope, the example of these wise men, and all wise men and women of history, Christians and non-Christians, who made themselves pilgrims of hope listening to the voice of God and recognizing God’s action in their lives.
May we follow at the beginning of this Holy Year, this Jubilee, in which we are called to be pilgrims of hope, the example of these wise men, and all wise men and women of history, Christians and non-Christians, who made themselves pilgrims of hope listening to the voice of God and recognizing God’s action in their lives.
In a time when it may seem safest to preserve ourselves as individuals and avoid the risk of vulnerability, may we heed God’s radical invitation to love one another deeply and courageously.
In a time when it may seem safest to preserve ourselves as individuals and avoid the risk of vulnerability, may we heed God’s radical invitation to love one another deeply and courageously.
I invite all of us to be builders of peace, of justice, of respect for diversity and to look at and contemplate the poor and fragile Christ, wrapped in swaddling clothes, in a manger.
I invite all of us to be builders of peace, of justice, of respect for diversity and to look at and contemplate the poor and fragile Christ, wrapped in swaddling clothes, in a manger.
