“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried,” wrote Salvadorian Saint Oscar Romero.
Without this breaking down and breaking open, we might imagine a sense of impossible control, a life of continuous upward growth. We have not yet been forced to consider the absolute fragility of all we can love in this manifest world.
Read More“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved” (Matthew 9:16-17).
Read MoreAt a time when we are constantly bombarded with "connection" through social media, a feeling of aloneness and hopelessness is pervasive in the world.
The world can feel like it is falling apart, personally and collectively.
