A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

One girl told me that the congress ‘has been a sneak peek into heaven.’

A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of St. Ignatius of Loyola, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

Bishop Andrew Cozzens, who spearheaded the three-year National Eucharistic Revival, said, “I felt a great fullness of God, one I prayed that everyone would be filled with.”

Maybe the reformed hearts at the Eucharistic Congress will leave Indianapolis with a new attitude when faced with signs like “Deport Them All.”

I cannot tell you exactly why I am getting emotional, except to say that maybe I am sorely in the mood for something simple and nonaffected and happy and endearing and guileless. (Maybe everyone is?)

I am always going to be let down by humans, but never by the One who is fully human and fully divine.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.