Scripture for Life: As we celebrate our loving relationships, let us also take prayerful time to become more aware of how these loves make us who we are.
The Uganda Martyrs Shrine at Namugongo, where 22 Catholic converts were executed in the 1800s, has become a living sanctuary of intercession for pilgrims.
Scripture for Life: As we come to the end of our Easter season, we can ask, "What have we learned? How have we changed? Has our faith in the resurrection of Christ given us courage and freed us from fear?"
Crafting a parable in which a woman is doing something exclusively reserved for male priests in the Holy of Holies of the Jerusalem Temple would have seemed totally unwarranted.
Scripture for Life: It is one thing to say, "Love one another." But here, Jesus takes it to the extreme: "Love one another as I have loved you." Whoa! That definitely belongs to the new heaven and earth.
The word holy derives from words that mean "being whole." There is an emerging consciousness that first sees reality from wholeness. I believe and hope that our newly elected pope is this kind of holy/whole person.
