In closing, to those who have closed the door on religion - I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, 'I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.' If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

We're remembering both the good and the bad in our history together in this world. This isn't an attempt to make people feel bad every morning and to force them to go stick their fingers in a wall socket. We chose these things we included as a way to point people toward the possibility of transformation even while remembering the great pain we have experienced as humanity.