Think about all the people who are invisible to us because we will not see; and then think of all the times we are invisible to others...

Jesus chooses the desert; not just because he knows he is not alone, but so that we know That we are not

In his radical words God comes bearing candles and flowers, challenging us to see things differently

Not because God’ll get us for breaking rules. But because God already has us. And will never let us go

We're the earth’s salt & its light, encouraging it to see beyond its prejudice, & enlivening the world with our universality-our Catholicity

when we work and pray, worship and live our traditional faith in that radical way

we find real community, where we can talk and think and work and serve and do it together

Because who we are is determined by whose we are. And We belong to him; the Lamb of God.

Nothing, not even the desert, can separate us from the promises of our baptism...

that Epiphany star still shines – in us; for we become a part of that light to the nations...

The world is always ending. But God faithfulness never does.

Look for places where things are changing, and you just might glimpse the hand of God.

Because just like Rosa Park, just like Isaiah, and John and Jesus, the Church knows that without the suffering the joy would have no meaning

Because every day, the one whose birth we will celebrate in less than a month, is born in us anew.

Has challenged all of us to share in Jesus’ work of forgiveness and service.

And as often as we have let go of God, God it would seem, never lets us go.

...injustice and death are never the last words, but justice and new life are.

saints are not simply the ones on the official list we honor today; but are what St Paul so often said they were; God’s faithful people–us.

i. Giving us maybe not everything we want ii. but certainly what we deserve – the very definition of justice.

15. But the problem really isn’t democracy – or for that matter, monarchy! It is faith. 16. And you know who pointed that out? Jesus.