Another Perspective

I once lived in community for several years with an Oblate brother who was wonderfully generous and pious to a fault. But he struggled to pick up symbol and metaphor. He took things literally. For him, what the words said is what they meant!

Dreams have always fascinated me – especially when I can actually remember details from them. Like John Lennon noted in his Imagine song, “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.” And I, like most folks, really get goose bumps when I hear Martin Luther King's famous “I Have A Dream” speech! Sometimes, I've actually noticed how much in sync a dream's message may have been with some resolution to a concern or problem that I had been coping with.

“God behaves in the psalms in ways he is not allowed to behave in systemic theology.”

All Saints Day causes me to reflect upon what a blessing it was to join the JMJ Youth Pilgrimage to Rome. While there our group was present for the Sept. 7 canonizations of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati This reminded me of my devotion to another saint who also died when she was young.