Yesterday and today, I was at two talks about change in the church. The present, Dr Richard McCorry authored a book, Dancing with Change, in 2004 and was the spark of my interest in how the change process works in the church. As I listened, it became clear to me that change is the core message of Christianity. Jesus came to show us how to change our hearts and enable them to be reflections of the divine image. We talk a lot about “conversion” and I wonder if we realize that t

This weekend many homilies will be preached about the life of the woman at the well, for good or bad. We do not even ask her name, just her past. The tradition of the church remembers her name as St. Photini (or Photina, Svetlana), meaning "the luminous one" or "enlightened one". She certainly was enlightened by her meeting Jesus at that well so many years ago. Her shining example is one we can all from. What makes her important is not her past; it is her faith in the one

The prodigal son is part of each of us. We all have parts that have rebelled against God and run away so we can do our own things. Lent is the time to face up to those parts and bring them to the Father. The parable assures that when we turn to the Lord, he embraces us and the heavens rejoice. This happens over and over again in our lives because the mystery of conversion is a lifelong process. The life of a faithful Christian is a lifelong journey with God and a life of puri