I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

Saints cannot exist without a community

A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I