How reasonable can we be when we cannot fully understand the reasons behind things? How can we better understand our and others’ reasons for doing things — and for not doing them?

What principles and purposes guide us in our choices and actions and commitments — both as community of faith and as a collection of faithful people? How well do we understand our call to covenantal relationships — and how well do we maintain those?

2021 Ingathering Celebration and Annual Water Ceremony — our very first in-person worship service for more than 18 months!

How did we go from the FBI “surveillance of homosexuals” in the 1950s to having an openly gay Secretary of Transportation and the highest rated cable news program hosted by an openly lesbian political commentator?

How did people who were members of the community and their allies not only survive, but thrive?

Don’t we all deserve the title Everyday Heroes?

“Despite the constraints of our psychological
development, and whether our needs are being met or not, we still have the
capacity to take control of a difficult situation and turn it into something that
leads to our personal growth. Our faith can be a powerful tool in this
process. It can be a stabilizing force in an unstable world and a driving
force to change that world for the better.”

“We had to accept that the dangers the pandemic posed were real and take them seriously enough to rearrange all our lives accordingly. And soon, we will need to rearrange our lives all over again as we emerge from quarantine. While this might be a happy thing, it may not be equally easy for everyone.”

“It was on these particular drives that I met Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted. She shelters at a parish in Waltham, for those of you who were wondering. Having been raised Catholic and educated in parochial school, I have known many a Lady in my day, but never one who made it so plain what her line of business was.”

“Once more I am reminded of how durable and expansive faith communities are, and, indeed, have been for millennia now.”

“Don’t let the deepest impressions that this difficult time has made on you be lost. Don’t overlook your own spiritual accomplishments this past year, however minor you might believe them to be. My guess is that most of you found something liberated in you during this last year.”

“Perhaps we should all be a little less certain of ourselves these days and a great deal more curious about others — including others quite unlike ourselves.”