Sublime

“perfection consists in being what God wants us to be.”

“he recognized that the purpose of individual growth is to share with others.”

Maybe Mary’s story, and this feast, tell us that if the scriptures don’t sometimes pierce us like a sword, we’re not paying close enough attention.

A prophet’s task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day.

Story of a Soul.

“I have found my calling: my call is love,” and writes: “In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and thus I will be all things . . .”

To make the poem of our faith, we must learn not to settle for a false certitude but to embrace ambiguity and mystery.

on this day worship reinforced my conviction that only Christ could have brought all of us together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

The human experience is of violence, and the psalms reflect our experience of the world.”