The stronger we grow together, the more our community will be able to welcome others into our common life, and the more resilient we will be to turn our efforts and focus toward the larger systems of suffering within our world.
Let us drink deeply and go forth boldly together, refreshed and renewed for the transformation of our relationships, our systems, and our world.
We are a people called to tell the truth when it is inconvenient and when it costs us social capital and standing.
The call of God more often comes to us when we, like Moses, choose to turn aside from a rote and programmed approach to life, and take time to be curious about what is happening right beside us.
Today Jesus asks each of us this same question: And you, who do you say I am?
Who really are you and how is that shown to the rest of the world on a daily basis?
We encounter crisis after crisis, and yet, over and over God provides support as we gain perspective and new partners in pursuing the common good.
God has work for us to do, as agents and instruments of transfiguration and transformation…
