
Light Moves within Our Darkness
Like most people, I would prefer to escape deep loss and to avoid hard and challenging times.
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Like most people, I would prefer to escape deep loss and to avoid hard and challenging times.

Each orchestra member’s face amazes me. They do their small parts with intensity to help create the full, altogether glorious music of the orchestra.

Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
November 23, 2022
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Luke 21:12-19
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It was difficult to accept that if the soul is to mature, it must go through the darkness and beyond it.

As Franciscans, we are all partners in grace, partners for the gospel. And for this, we should be grateful!

We have been gifted with the ability to breathe God’s breath. It’s God’s breath in our lungs. In and out, nourishing our bodies. In and out, touching every fiber of our beings.

It seemed inconceivable to the Jews that anything could happen to the temple. Yet Jesus says that not one stone will be left upon another.

Nature takes us directly to Life, her world and the inner world of love being in deep communion.

We’ve imagined what Peter must have felt to walk upon the waves and fall into fear, despite his Savior being in front of him. The promise of our faith is that we have not been abandoned.

Generosity is relative to the resources of the one who offers. No gift is too small as long as it represents the heart of the giver.