Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.