“I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.” . . . .
“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”
“Much remains to be done to address the long-term needs for permanent housing, clean water and sanitation, and other basic necessities that will help to restore justice, dignity and peace to the people of Haiti.”
In response to the flooding in Queensland, Australia, Friday will be a world day of prayer for those affected by this disaster.
“The church is the body of Christ, and each church is part of that body. To get to know someone from a different culture who shares the same beliefs and liturgical practices is mind-broadening and spiritually invigorating.”
Bishops of The Episcopal Church offer pastoral letters this week as Haiti marks one year since the devastating earthquake
“I get a sense that the Haitian people are trying to get their lives back together,” said Serio. “There’s still a very long way to go.”
“We hope for significant and measurable progress in the coming months in improving the lives of Haitians, helping to restore livelihoods, and stabilizing the institutions of communities and the nation.”
I’d visited Joe in the hospital several times before he fell into the coma. The cancer was taking him quickly. Joe had co-chaired the parish search committee that had taken the big risk of calling me, a divorced twenty-nine year old priest from across the country, to be their rector. It hadn’t worked out as he’d hoped, I guess.
Human beings long for happiness, and human existence has happiness as its natural end—so Aelred of Rievaulx believes. To put this another way, the happiness for which humans long is the fulfillment of their nature as human beings.