We often set limitations, we set up barriers, we decide who belongs and who doesn’t, we decide who’s worth our while and who is not. In Christ’s perspective, everyone is worth our while, because it is everyone we hope to see in the life to come. It’s everyone we hope to be joined to in the life to come.
Our lives don’t lend themselves very well to unity. We live in pieces. Sometimes we live in those pieces very well. But it’s not the piecemeal to which we have been called, but a wholeness which we must seek. If we wish to understand God’s mystery as it unfolds, we are going to have to seek that wholeness that includes us but also the rest of the world.
--Fr. Patrick Michaels
Homily, November 7, 2023
Homily, November 7, 2023
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