You’re Invited! In the good ol’ days we would not give a second thought to sending out cards, e-cards and other social mediums. It is not so easy these days. Often it is: “You’re invited but… only come if you are XYZ and LMNOP". In our spiritual life, God is always in the business of inviting. There is not one human being that he does not invite. He leaves the invitation free. We are free to accept or reject the invitation. 
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

We must be hatched or go bad… that is putting it bluntly, don’t you think? What is C.S. Lewis getting at and what does this have to do with Christmas? Everything, I think. God came to us in the person of Jesus Christ so that we might be hatched; so that we might come into the abundance of life. This is what John the Baptist kept preaching near the Jordan River. The coming of the Messiah was going to change everything. We better get ourselves ready for that change....
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Dear Friends in Christ,
Greetings!  During the writing of this note I received via email a memo from our Archbishop, Thomas Cardinal Collins outlining the lifting of most pandemic restrictions.  Wow!  There is light at the end of the tunnel.  What has driven us apart is beginning to lose its power.  May we be instruments of every divine grace that knits us back together.  In one of the Sunday Lenten readings St. Paul states that God who has reconciled us to himself has given us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5.18).  What a powerful reminder of our mandate as Christians. 
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Dear friends in Christ,

I don’t know about you, but I was quite overcome with emotion when we prayed the prayer of consecration, entrusting ourselves and, in a particular way, entrusting Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The litany of sins of humanity was very plain to see. The sins that crucified Jesus two thousand years ago are the same sins that we commit today to crucify each other - greed, tribalism, indifference, selfishness, ignoring God, arrogance, aggression, betrayal, and the killing of innocent lives are just some of the sins listed. It was from this place of weakness, of culpability, that we then turned to Mary to plead for her intercession that our plight might be responded to by God.
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