We have not kept the old covenant, so God offers us a new one. God forgives our evildoing and remembers our sin no more.

My younger sister and I had a terrific argument some time back that wounded both of us terribly. Normally we are the best of friends, allies, and partners-in-crime

Every First Friday of the month for five years, I brought an elderly gentleman Holy Communion. And every time, he would tell me with great certainty that it would be my final visit. He was sure that he would be dead by the next First Friday.

I was supposed to attend the baby shower of a co-worker, when the phone rang in my office. It was my doctor calling with test results that confirmed that the baby I was carrying, due several months after my co-worker's, not only had a heart defect, which we knew, but had Down syndrome, which was news.

As our Lord Jesus Christ prayed to the Father, we pray for our salvation.

We know then that joy is sweetness of contact with the love of God, that affliction is the wound of this same contact when it is painful, and that only the contact matters, not the manner of it.