Eight days after Christmas, this Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, Mother of God offers us the gospel of the Christmas night: the visit of the shepherds. There is haste in their desire to go and see. Haste is part of loving. “They found Mary and Joseph and the infant lying in the manger”, […]

Will we ‘back into our future’ or will we walk into our future ‘face forward’, with heart and mind living in the present and leaning into the future, the future where grace is antecedent, already present, ready to bestow on us the Divine help we need as we live into this New Year.  The prophet […]

Chapter Talk – New Year’s Eve – December 31, 2020   ‘Here I am the servant of the Lord’, ‘let it be done to me according to your word’ (Lk 1:38): all ways of saying ‘yes’.  Our consent has given us seeds of new life: “Of his fullness we have all received, grace and truth” […]

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