Columns

This is a day when female voices aren’t just present but prominent. As befits this day, the feminine is front and center, with a clarity and volume that I really can’t remember on any other feast or Sunday.

Scripture of Life: When the experience of evil feels as palpable as the mysterium, we may well be afraid. Yet, our very distress constitutes the call to stand up against destruction and injustice.

Horizons - Knowing we are loved — and that others are loved by the same God — should call us to reach out to one another. We cannot solve every problem, but our reactions in the coming days and weeks do matter.

Sr. Leticia Gutiérrez, director of the El Paso Diocese's Hospitality Ministry for Migrants, shares how the Scalabrinian sisters and lay volunteers support migrants entering the U.S. through treacherous mountain routes.

In their journey to seek a better future for their families and children, migrant women from Latin America face dangers, abuse and discrimination. Yet, they hold onto hope and navigate challenges, much like the story of Ruth, reflects Sr. María Laura Torres. 

Scripture for Life: Christ's birth and reception by the simple made the first turn of the golden key. Now it is ours to dare the second turn and exercise the humility to be open to wonderful and challenging treasures we have never imagined. 

Horizons - In 2021, I walked the Camino de Santiago as a pilgrim. This Jubilee Year, I embrace the call to be a "Pilgrim of Hope"; my hope is that we remain open to the wild and exciting journey where the Holy Spirit leads.

Perhaps we need to withdraw from the "noise" all around us to enter the cave of silence and contemplation so as to listen to the stirrings of our heart preparing us to come back out and respond in new ways to each other and the issues that divide us.