As part of Lent, I’ve been reviewing my service to the parish, the wider church, and the world. God points me in directions for this. Just since Lent, I’ve done the Sunday homilies, with an even deeper focus than normal. I gave two Nights of Recollection on the Trinity living within us—our Inner Treasure—and how to let that help us move and serve through each day. People were relieved to hear this. I went on the ACTS retreat with 30 of our women, and gave 4 Masses with preach

Exciting! Amazing! Awesome! Relieving! These words were spoken by our 8th Grade students about the Luke 18 retreat they’d been on all weekend. They attended the 10:30 Mass last Sunday, and were certainly the focus of the Mass. I asked them beforehand what they’d say about the weekend, and those were the words they said. The one young man said “relieving” because he found out that God could really forgive their sins, and that they could forgive each other too. Pretty good retr

LISTEN TO HIM—Last Sunday, the gospel was the shocking event of the Transfiguration. Why shocking? Well, it certainly was for the apostles, who were just walking along dusty roads from place to place with Jesus when this happened. It’s also shocking for us, because it happens in Lent! and early in Lent. While we may think of it as a dark, penitential time, the church from ancient times has presented this glorious vision of Christ for our Lent. Early writers of the church said