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Returning Changes – Dec. 4, 2020

“The pathways in the lives of today’s pilgrims first lead away, to places of detachment and withdrawal, yielding a grounding clarity about the world’s realities and spiritual empowerment for the way forward. Then, faithful pilgrims return, walking into the public square with a transforming presence and witness. In the end, pilgrims leave the Empire behind […]

Spiritual Significance – Dec. 3, 2020

“At the center of our faith, material reality is imbued with spiritual significance and power. Bread from the fields, and fruit of the vine, which human hands have made. Water in a baptismal incarnation, where eternal word is united with human flesh. Then we wonder, if some water can be holy, maybe all is. If […]

A Reenchanted World – Dec. 2, 2020

“The experiences of a reenchanted world encountered on pilgrimages offer a portal to a far more pervasive truth. These are not just aberrations. Rather, they are clues to how the world really is. The interconnections of life, down to the quantum entanglement of particles mysteriously communicating information, to the synchronicity of trees in a forest […]