When will Holy Week run its course replacing the difficulty and drudgery of Lent with the alleluias of Easter?
In our litigious and somewhat jaded society, it is a challenge to remember what Jesus teaches us: law is about love before it is about behavior.
Drafted into parenthood, our Joseph has been spun into the perfect husband and father. Given no lines, we imagine him as the “strong silent type.”
God is not divisible into palatable and optional parts. We must be all in, or we will come up foolishly empty.
As we follow the voice of God, we are called to live outside the bounds of what we imagined possible.
God longs to heal us, to give us life, and to make us whole, but we are given a free choice. Will we listen?
Our churches and homes are bitterly divided. But we also must realize, as David did, that those who curse us may not be ours to judge.
What if all we had were today? Would we want to leave the last day of our earthly life unexplored, unappreciated, and unloved?
The paths of God are many and varied. Some of us are called to visit the imprisoned and some, like John, are called to stand up to unjust rulers.
I am struck by how the prophetess Anna was able to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
