Category: Ars Praedicandi

We do not pray that we be delivered from the natural emotions that punctuate our living fully, but that we might employ them to spur us into gospel living and develop holy anxiety for the good things.

Many of us don’t have deep resources, and have our own version of a few loaves and fishes, but on this coalescing, if not collision, of festivals and feasts, we too are commissioned to sacrifice, to struggle, to endure so that, no matter how modestly, we too can multiple, nourish, and liberate for those children…

In baptism, when distinctively gifted with the Jesus spirit, we were commissioned in tongues, not to speak to Parthian, Mede, and Elamite but to speak to the stranger and the lost, the broken and the bereft, the marginalized and dismissed, and so become graced travelers across the multiverse we call humanity, healing the rifts resulting…

Living a life of faith requires an imagination, a vision of what could be in God.

Thomas’ willingness to touch the wounds, to get up close and personal with pain, even crucifixion, prompts us to do the same. Our families, our neighbors, the stranger, the marginalized are skin-hungry for the compassionate Christ.

Resurrection is the finish line we all hope to cross. Easter is the sometimes slow, often difficult path for getting there.

Today this community and the universal church holds you up as the light of the world. What the ancients called the photozomenoi – people destined for light – supporting you with our own commitment to combat evil and spread peace. You are the flame of this living paschal candle and the church is the wax, feeding…