Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.