The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.

To pray is always to call down the eternal into the temporal. That is what we do today for our dead.

This feast day is good time to remember that there is really only one thing about which we should be anxious.

Saul comes to terms with his encounter with the Risen Lord.

In the end—at the end—the human heart has only one plea. It wants to live. It knows that it was not created to go down into the darkness.

Justice and peace are of God. To receive them, the depths of the human must be laid open.