Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.