Her message of accompaniment- “Am I not here; I who am your mother?”- resonates with us today as it resonated with St. Juan Diego, and propels us to be courageous in how we respond to God’s calling, in how we spread God’s word and God’s love.
Her message of accompaniment- “Am I not here; I who am your mother?”- resonates with us today as it resonated with St. Juan Diego, and propels us to be courageous in how we respond to God’s calling, in how we spread God’s word and God’s love.
On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, let us remind ourselves that authentic discernment requires freedom and space. Let us ponder how we can imitate the freedom with which Mary discerned a big question.
On this feast of the Immaculate Conception, let us remind ourselves that authentic discernment requires freedom and space. Let us ponder how we can imitate the freedom with which Mary discerned a big question.
What will we do, this Lukan Advent, to prepare a way in the desert?We will see and seek reasons to rejoice, and we will share them. We will keep kindling even the smallest, and most domestic lights. And in our time and our place, we will be true partners in the Gospel.
What will we do, this Lukan Advent, to prepare a way in the desert?We will see and seek reasons to rejoice, and we will share them. We will keep kindling even the smallest, and most domestic lights. And in our time and our place, we will be true partners in the Gospel.
To belong to the truth is to form genuine connections, where love, empathy, and understanding bring the Gospel message to life in a way that reaches others deeply and meaningfully.
To belong to the truth is to form genuine connections, where love, empathy, and understanding bring the Gospel message to life in a way that reaches others deeply and meaningfully.
When we have hope, when we remember that– even in the trying times, especially in the trying times– the great Hope-Bearer is right here, knocking at the door of our hearts, we can sustain any season.
When we have hope, when we remember that– even in the trying times, especially in the trying times– the great Hope-Bearer is right here, knocking at the door of our hearts, we can sustain any season.
I have enough experience in and among poor and otherwise marginal communities to know there is dignity and value to allowing even the humblest of us to make real and even sacrificial contributions.
I have enough experience in and among poor and otherwise marginal communities to know there is dignity and value to allowing even the humblest of us to make real and even sacrificial contributions.
Before we can love our God with our whole being, we must practice active and holy listening. We must open ourselves to the movements of the Spirit–to the little fires of God around us.
Before we can love our God with our whole being, we must practice active and holy listening. We must open ourselves to the movements of the Spirit–to the little fires of God around us.
To live humbly, to share one another’s grief and pain, to be compassionate, to hunger and thirst for justice and work for peace, is to live in solidarity, to proclaim that “a different world is possible,” and to contribute to its birth.
To live humbly, to share one another’s grief and pain, to be compassionate, to hunger and thirst for justice and work for peace, is to live in solidarity, to proclaim that “a different world is possible,” and to contribute to its birth.
I invite us to receive this “What do you want?” question in two ways: First, what do we want God to do for us? And secondly, let’s follow Jesus’s example by asking those around us, “What do you want me to do for you?”
I invite us to receive this “What do you want?” question in two ways: First, what do we want God to do for us? And secondly, let’s follow Jesus’s example by asking those around us, “What do you want me to do for you?”
Maybe what the apostles most need is not to be enthroned at Jesus’ right and left hand but to be sitting at his feet like Mary, soaking up his presence, resting in his radiance.
Maybe what the apostles most need is not to be enthroned at Jesus’ right and left hand but to be sitting at his feet like Mary, soaking up his presence, resting in his radiance.
Each of us is called to be generous with the gifts God has given us. The big question is: How are wecalled to do that? The answer is different for each of us. We have to discern, day by day, year by year, what this means for us.
Each of us is called to be generous with the gifts God has given us. The big question is: How are wecalled to do that? The answer is different for each of us. We have to discern, day by day, year by year, what this means for us.
I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.
I hope we can allow ourselves to transform these recesses and shadows into spaces of resistance and solidarity from which we might emerge sure of our dignity, sure of the Spirit moving through us, and sure of God’s love.
