June 7, 2026
The Authority of Compassion
If we now realize that the future generation is not only an inward generation asking for articulation but also a fatherless generation looking for a new kind of authority, we must consider what the nature of this authority will be.
June 6, 2026
The Eyes of Love
I do believe deeply, that in order to live a spiritual life, we have to claim for ourselves that we are “taken” or “chosen.”
June 5, 2026
Revolutionary & Mystic
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself.
June 4, 2026
Compassionate Ministry
The call to compassionate ministry is a great call. But we must not be fearful.
June 3, 2026
Letting God Define Our Life
To wait with openness and trust is an enormously radical attitude toward life.
June 2, 2026
You Are Accepted
The first love says, “I loved you before you could love anyone or before you could receive love from anyone. I have accepted you.
June 1, 2026
Small Signs of God’s Presence
Our salvation comes from something small, tender, and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable. God, who is the Creator of the Universe, comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.
May 31, 2026
Celebrating God’s Love
The divine ecstatic joy of the house of love becomes manifest in celebration.
May 30, 2026
Letting Go of My Wishes
I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope.
May 29, 2026
Living at the Place of Innocence
I know that I am called to live at the place of innocence – the place where Jesus chose to live.
May 28, 2026
Death Does Not Have the Last Say
The joy that Jesus offers his disciples is his own joy, which flows from his intimate communion with the One who sent him.
May 27, 2026
Letting Peace Grow
As long as we imagine and live as if there is no peace in sight, and that it all depends on us to make it come about, we are on the road to self-destruction.
May 26, 2026
Let Nothing Disturb You
I have found that Saint Teresa’s call to focus on the goodness of God when I need to discern helps me fight the demons of despair, self-rejection, and fear, and has overcome the powers of darkness with the power of God many times.
May 25, 2026
Jesus Wants to Free Us
Jesus wants to free us from the chain that imprisons us. He wants to free us by revealing that we are loved before we can give or receive love from anybody.
May 24, 2026
Our True Vocation
Too often I looked at being relevant, popular, and powerful as ingredients of an effective ministry.
May 23, 2026
A Place to Dwell
Your heart, Jesus, is so full of the desire to love me, so aflame with a fire to warm me.
May 22, 2026
Refreshing Our Memory
I am struck by the fact that the prophets speaking about the future of Israel always kept reminding their people of God’s great works in the past.
May 21, 2026
The Source of All Peace
Do not give up working for peace. Always remember that the peace for which you work is not of this world.
May 20, 2026
God’s Preparations in the Interruptions
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny twinkle in his eyes: “I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.”
May 19, 2026
Choosing the Light
I know quite well the difference between darkness and light but do not always have the courage to name them by their true names.