Called to Community
Today’s reading* is the culmination in the Gospel of John of Jesus’ final words to his followers the night before his crucifixion. The mystical language of oneness here is dizzying but the message is clear: Jesus calls us to a life together that realizes our God-giftedness and our God-connection and our God-inspired vocation to be […]
The Liberation of Love – May 7, 2019
“We can create the climate and nurture the trust in which a deep giving of ourselves can happen. Much more than the confession of our light or our darkness is involved. What is involved is the recovery of love itself, the communion that is the deepest need of every life, the unlocking of that infinite […]
Become Engaged – Jan. 15, 2019
“The real problem with the structures of the church is that they do not often allow us to become engaged in the anguish of people whose need, and accents, and ways are different from our own. They do not allow us to feel. It was not enough for Moses to see the misery of a […]
April 27, 2018
Perhaps if we kept more fully our desert watches—stayed longer where the pain is—we would be different when we left the wilderness. As it is, we often have learned very little and so are destined to suffer in the same ways again. – O’Connor, Our Many Selves
