Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me.