3.75 starsI received this book as part of the Goodreads First Reads giveaways, in exchange for an honest review.I am so personally impressed with Pope Francis that I was thrilled to win this giveaway. I only wish time had allowed me to read it sooner.My only wish for this book is that the excerp...
16, 2015“Do you love me?… Tend my sheep” (John 21:15-17). Jesus’ words to Peter in today’s Gospel are the first words I speak to you, dear brother bishops and priests, men and women religious, and young seminarians. These words remind us of something essential. All pastoral ministry is born of lo...
Where did the inspiration come from? There was no particular or defining moment. Things come to me by themselves, they are the ways of the Lord, and they are preserved in prayer. I am inclined never to trust my first reaction to an idea or to a proposal that is made to me. I never trust...
All three have this in common: the anointing that they receive is meant in turn to anoint God’s faithful people, whose servants they are; they are anointed for the poor, for prisoners, for the oppressed . . . A fine image of this “being for” others can be found in Psalm 133: “It is like the preci...