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In my ministry, I clearly distinguish between community liturgy and prayer services. One of our primary principles is Inclusive Community. In hopes of fostering this value in a school not primarily Catholic within the student body and nurturing the creativity of a prayer experience outside of the liturgy, we offer prayer services where we celebrate…
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Enlarge the heart. It almost seems like a dangerous medical request to enlarge one’s heart would bring physical death. Perhaps that’s the point from a spiritual perspective. We enlarge our hearts to die to ourselves and welcome room to love God in a new way.On this first anniversary of my oblation, I reread the Holy…
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Today marks the first anniversary of my oblation to the monastic community at Mount Angel Abbey. June 16 is also significant because it is the anniversary of my baptism in 1984 at Saint Patrick Church in San Francisco. Standing in line for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I remembered my time in Rome in 2012. I…
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I cannot even begin to tell you how often I preferred to be the driver rather than the passenger in my young adult life. I wanted to be somewhere at a particular time, and the only way to do that was to take the most efficient route. As the years passed, my driving habits remained…
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God, the giver of every good gift, is a truth the Church continually impresses upon us, as we are reminded in the Collect of today’s Mass. The prayer affirms that God, the source of all goodness, will provide for all our needs. In this way, the Church serves as a beacon, guiding us to the…
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Enlarge my heart 