Can a song save your life? Can a canticle change your life, fundamentally alter its course?

Will Christ manifest himself and end history? Assuredly yes, if you believe in him and what he said. When will this happen and how? Even in this atomic age, we still do not know.

The people we loved and who we became because we loved, these shall not pass.

On this Feast of All Souls, let us remember "our people," living for God and for each other. We can live for both, and die for both.

The Solemnity of All the Saints reveals the relationship between who we are and who we should become, between time and eternity, between ourselves and the saints.

We neither chose nor fashioned the wounded and scary worlds in which we live. And this is the meaning of the sin which the Catholic Church calls “original.” We ourselves are wounded before we ever set out to reject or to wound.

The cross of Christ appears as his abandonment by the Father. Our crosses do as well, but it is only in the cross that we discover that God is abandonment and outpouring love.

Our prayers would be immeasurably improved if we truly believed that we were indeed talking to someone.

We cannot help but draw dividing lines, but the Gospel wants us to know that they are our lines, not God’s. They are a consequence of sin’s entrance in the world.

The way to believe in the vision is to immerse ourselves ever more deeply in the life of the vision keeper, the mystery that we call the church.