On this Easter morn, let us heed the command to start again, to reinterpret everything in our own lives and all of history in the light of Christ’s definitive victory over evil.

As we move toward celebrating the holiest week of our liturgical year, God continues to say, “If only you believe, you will experience my death transforming glory, my life-giving Spirit, my future.”

Jesus’ healing action for the blind man — which happened on a Sabbath — spurred deeper questions: How and when does God act in our world? What does God want from us?

Our God thirsts for real presence, for contentious or questioning prayer, for genuine interaction that opens us.

The story of the Transfiguration bids us to let go of inadequate images of God in order to discover something new. Free of our preconceptions, we can be surprised by God’s unimaginable designs.

Lent offers us the opportunity to spend time asking ourselves who we are at our core and who God wants to help us become. Growing in our identity as daughters and sons of God will continue until we take our last breath.

Whether we realize it or not, we belong to God just as much as Jesus did. On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, let us contemplate the Nativity as God’s invitation to become more conscious of our share in divine life.

Where do we find Christ active today? In this season, and always, we are called to be the lights that manifest the presence of Christ among us.

This second Sunday of Advent invites us all to make straight the paths, to remind ourselves that Christ is alive and the Spirit is active among us.

The readings for this First Sunday of Advent invite us to focus on the end, not to emphasize our vulnerability but to remember where we’re going.