Adult Formation

Hint – WHERE were the disciples without Thomas? Where were they with Thomas? Locked in the upper room. Behind locked doors. Doors bolted. Behind barriers. Safe, they thought, from anyone who might try to get to them. And even more so, they were locked in an upper room – removed from things.

There is a hole in the middle of Paris today. One could add, there’s a hole in the HEART of Paris today. We all saw the images of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on FIRE

I once posed a question to my Newman Center Community on Facebook: “If you knew you had less than a day to live, what would you do with your time?” One student said they’d go to confession and get anointed – sort of all greased up and ready for judgment. And then in a separate…

Someone had to clear the streets after the triumphal entry. To make the road passable for the carts and donkeys and foot traffic.

The first one was the loudest. It landed with a dull ‘thud’ that startled those standing in that embarrassed circle. It had to have been the toughest one to drop, because the dust it raised would betray the hand that dropped it. Who dropped the stone first?

I have always been a sucker for stories of people who were lost who then became found. Early in my priesthood, I somehow got on the mailing list for Covenant House, and their begging letters would always tell the stories of the runaways who came to the big city with great plans, but that turned…