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Opening – Apr. 23, 2019

“Let us swing wide all the doors and windows of our hearts on the rusty hinges, so we may learn how to open in love.Let us see the light in the other and honor it so we may lift one another on our shoulders and carry each other along.Let holiness move in us so we […]

Friendship – Apr. 10, 2019

“Perhaps our most common experience of priesthood—and often our most powerful one—is found in friendship. In friendship, desire and opportunity combine to allow us the truest knowledge of another person we are ever likely to get. In old friends we can see the flaws as well as the good points… accept that they, like us, […]

The Priestly Role – Apr. 9, 2019

“To become a true priest of the Life-giving Holy requires a certain loving detachment. We have to enter the border country and live among its secrets without having our eye fixed too much on how we can make use of them. We are there for love and communion and enjoyment, not for use. We must […]

Waking Up! – Apr. 8, 2019

Kayla McClurg’s gospel reflection for April 7 describes meeting Jesus at the intersection of life and death, hope and despair. To encourage your further reflection on that intersection, we turn to L. William Countryman’s book, Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of All (Morehouse Publishing, 1999). “It can be helpful to […]