To be transfigured requires the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Together, we are Christ’s body, called to reconcile the divisions in our world.

May we witness the glory of the One who “bears up the pillars of creation.”

“We must find [Christ] here, now, and where we are, in this age of ours.” – Isaac Hecker, C. S. P.

Surely, before Mary said “Yes” to God, she recognized that her consent would launch her and her child into a life of uncertainty and risk.

We can’t live out God’s promise of comfort, unless we first step outside of our comfort zones.

God continually invites each of us to step into a future where we don’t know what will happen.

Even Mother Teresa of Kolkata was called “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.”

Jesus was inserted into this same conflict concerning politics, ethnicity, and religion.

What are today’s analogies for God’s vineyard?

“I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it.” Amos 5:24 (The Message)

“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”