1. Several years ago, I sat on my couch on a Sunday morning. a. I should have been on my way to North Carolina to celebrate my brother’s...

1. The first time I heard the word was around the year 2000. 2. I was standing there with a priest friend, shortly after the holidays, a....

If we do not want anyone to be angry at God for being generous to you or me, then let us never be jealous at God’s goodness to someone else.

And somehow God will lead us through; Despite our doubts. Despite our fears.

All those parables had a point; that what is given must be given again; talents that are bestowed must be used

And we would see each other for who we truly are brothers and sisters living in one house, where there is room enough for all.

Our God is by definition the one who makes the impossible happen.

Jesus chooses the desert; not just because he knows he is not alone, but so that we know That we are not

In his radical words God comes bearing candles and flowers, challenging us to see things differently

Not because God’ll get us for breaking rules. But because God already has us. And will never let us go

We're the earth’s salt & its light, encouraging it to see beyond its prejudice, & enlivening the world with our universality-our Catholicity

when we work and pray, worship and live our traditional faith in that radical way

we find real community, where we can talk and think and work and serve and do it together

Because who we are is determined by whose we are. And We belong to him; the Lamb of God.

Nothing, not even the desert, can separate us from the promises of our baptism...

that Epiphany star still shines – in us; for we become a part of that light to the nations...

The world is always ending. But God faithfulness never does.

Look for places where things are changing, and you just might glimpse the hand of God.

Because just like Rosa Park, just like Isaiah, and John and Jesus, the Church knows that without the suffering the joy would have no meaning

Because every day, the one whose birth we will celebrate in less than a month, is born in us anew.