“When the desert fathers were feeling panicky or disconsolate they would say one word. It was not God or Jesus or love but ‘today.’ It anchored them and it is where we ought to stay,”
Mary Lee Talbot
“Because we have a God who wants nothing from us but wants for us, he loves us into a better world,” said Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., at the 9:15 a.m. Tuesday morning worship service. “God
“We need a better God than the one we have. Our God atrophies and becomes puny and we are stuck in fifth grade asking God to let us pass a test even though we did not study.
“Whoopi Goldberg was asked in an interview who she admired most. She said ‘Pope Francis, because he’s going with the original program,’ ” said Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., at the 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning worship service.
When Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., started working with gang members 30 years ago, he found that people easily demonized them. “It was going uphill to have folks see them as human — or just see