The undoing of Babel is our invitation to emerge from confusion about ourselves into the clarity of God's love.

Jesus ascends so that we may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our life.

Last Sunday I celebrated Mass on a kibbutz in northern Israel.  What is our understanding of peace?  Can peace be something deeper than a stalemate between warring forces?

We celebrated First Holy Communion today.  We use "Here is the church, here is the steeple," to remind us that God the Shepherd wants to gather all of us in.

Embarrassment is often accompanied by irrational, exaggerated response.  Here is an example from St. Peter.

Finally, several weeks after his election, a reflection on the startling and soothing presence of Pope Francis.

"Peter was amazed."  The resurrection of Jesus is, for him and for all of us, the occasion for a complete overturning of the meaning of life.